Winged seeds called samaras grow on maple trees. These are seeds from the Japanese maple, _Acer palmatum_. AlessandroZocc/iStock via Getty Images Plus When wind or other disturbances detach winged ...

Jun. 10—If you think you've been seeing an invasion of helicopters this year, you're not imagining things. Southern Minnesota maple trees are producing a copious amount of seeds that flutter from ...

PASADENA, Calif.—The twirling seeds of maple trees spin like miniature helicopters as they fall to the ground. Because the seeds descend slowly as they swirl, they can be carried aloft by the wind and ...

Let's watch how a maple seed germinating and growing into a young tree over this 138-day time-lapse. For cold-stratification, ...

Barbara Lethcoe is up to her ears in maple tree seeds. But she isn’t the only one with this problem. Maple trees throughout the city have shown to be producing more seedlings this year, causing ...

While walking to my car, I noticed that the wind was full of some sort of seeds fluttering, whirling, and spinning to the ground. My car was covered with the small reddish and yellow seeds. They ...

We’ve seen aircraft based on “helicopter” seeds (technically samara seeds, which include those of maples and elms) before, but this recent design from researchers at the Singapore University of ...

Q. Last fall, I collected Japanese maple seeds from trees in the neighborhood and planted about 100 of them in small pots, left them out over the winter, and did not get a single sprout. Advice on how ...

Jimmy prouty who designed the UAS used by Sea Shepherd to track whale hunters has come up with an innovate method to avoid using a parachute in the event of a loss of link or component failure. The ...

The twirling seeds of maple trees spin like miniature helicopters as they fall to the ground. Because the seeds descend slowly as they swirl, they're carried aloft by the wind and dispersed over great ...