In Renaissance Europe, the sunflower became an exotic commodity and a cultural phenomenon – harvested by Spanish sailors as rare trophies from the New World and cultivated in ornamental gardens by the ...
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.
From throwing cans of soup to being thrown in the can. Two paintings in Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” series were damaged by soup-tossing climate protesters in London Friday — in ...