The latest trend from Sichuan, China of using lotus leaves as 'sunscreen' has captured the Internet. This quirky trend spread like wildfire when a reel of two bikers shielding themselves from the sun ...

The Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University team demonstrated the generator using a lotus leaf to power small devices, potentially enabling plant-powered electricity networks.

Lotus leaves are now used as sun protection in China, in place of headgear and expensive SPF lotions. It is natural, free, and most likely has no negative effects.

Lotus leaves' water-repellency depends as much on the bumpy leaf surface as on its waxy coating. Roughness reduces the ability of water to spread out, so droplets snag and gather up into almost ...

Bioengineers have harnessed the lotus effect to develop a system for culturing cancer cell clusters that can shed light on hard-to-study tumor properties. The new zinc oxide-based culturing ...

New viral trend of using lotus leaves as a sunscreen. Photo: Instagram/chinainsider People in China take skincare seriously, and sometimes they even turn to bizarre trends to keep their skin ...