Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sunflowers follow the sun from east to west as it moves across the sky. [Related: The mathematical theory that connects swimming ...

A sunflower’s ability to track the sun east to west during the day, and to face east again before the next sunrise, relies on multiple types of photoresponses, according to a new study publishing ...

Most of us aren’t spending our days watching our houseplants grow. We see their signs of life only occasionally – a new leaf unfurled, a stem leaning toward the window. But in the summer of 1863, ...

Sunflowers are famous for following the sun as it moves across the sky. So how do they do it? While previous work has proposed a mechanism for this movement, new work has suggested that the biological ...

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 real ...

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 PLOS ...