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

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 ...

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 ...

The sunflower (Helianthus spp.) is an expert at adapting to harsh ... Previous studies have suggested that the flowers follow the sun to absorb heat, which both helps them grow faster and attracts ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

“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 ...