Photo taken: May 30, 2024, on Bainbridge Island. Photographer’s description: “While walking my dog, I noticed a large number of maple tree seeds that had fallen in a parking lot and thought I could ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Andrew Dickerson, University of Tennessee (THE CONVERSATION) When wind or other ...

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 ...

Although humans can fly with the help of copious engineering, Mother Nature has already come up with much simpler ways to soar, like the way a maple tree’s spinning seeds scatter by floating on the ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md.—Maple tree seeds (or samara fruit) and the spiraling pattern in which they glide to the ground have delighted children for ages and perplexed engineers for decades. Now aerospace ...