These constrained plants produced less oil than the plants that could lean and get the maximum amount of Sun. While farmers ...

Sunflowers famously turn their faces to follow the sun as it crosses the sky. But how do sunflowers “see” the sun to follow it? New work from plant biologists at UC Davis, published Oct. 31 in ...

Sunflowers, true to their name, follow the sun with their bright yellow blooms ... Harmer concluded that the plants’ ability to turn toward light may be controlled by different molecular pathways than ...

Real flowers do it, and even the Beatles did it. [Robo Hub] now has a plastic sunflower that tracks the sun using, of course, an Arduino. It may not qualify as a real robot, but it does mimic a ...

The U.S. defense secretary at the time said something along the lines of, “We planted sunflowers here and the sun started shining again.” Hearing his words, I thought about the possibility of ...

Following is a transcript of the video. SmartFlower is an intelligent "sunflower" that will "bloom" to generate clean solar energy. By tracking the sun from east to west, it aims to be more ...