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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, ...

Pass by a field of sunflowers at midsummer, and you'll notice every bright face turned toward the same patch of sky. Sunflowers track the sun from dawn until dusk, a graceful, slow-motion choreography ...

A team of researchers at Cornell University led by designer Jenny Sabin is developing a flexible solar material called HelioSkin that is integrated with sun-tracking capabilities similar to the ...

Get ready for sunflower season!Grinter Farms in Lawrence says its sunflowers are on track to bloom around Labor Day.The well-known sunflower spot posted photos of the stalks on Facebook, saying they ...