with mature sunflowers generally facing east. Heliotropism is the scientific term for this incredible process where flowers move in response to the sun's movement. Just like humans, plants have ...

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.

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 ...

SmartFlower was inspired by the heliotropic properties of the sunflower. Heliotropism is when plants move in response to the direction of the sun. Like a sunflower, the SmartFlower opens its ...

2 Sunflowers are an especially good species to study because they are so big and move so dramatically. In an earlier study, her team found that in the morning, when the sun is still to the east, cells ...

Companion planting is simply the practice of interplanting different crops that may benefit each other in a myriad of ways ...

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 ...

“The clue is in the name,” says Lucy. “Sunflowers do like sunny spots, but as long as they are in the sun for at least part of the day you should be able to get away with that.” Sunflowers ...