They brighten our days with their sunny, vibrant and summery feel. But as it turns out sunflowers are not just pretty to look at, they also have a hidden feature that may offer clues as to how plants ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flowers are one of the most striking examples of diversity in nature, displaying myriad combinations of colours, patterns, shapes ...

In this study, researchers found that sunflowers grown in a dense row naturally formed a near-perfect zigzag pattern, with each plant leaning away from the row in alternating directions. This pattern ...

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, ...

Boulder, 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 ...

Comparison between crop and wild sunflower genes suggests that the plant followed an easy route to domestication. Archaeologists estimate that people transformed wild sunflowers into a user-friendly ...

New UC Davis research shows how an internal circadian clock controls the opening of individual florets in concentric rings in the sunflower head. This helps attract pollinating insects. (Jason Spyres) ...