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 ...

(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 ...

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 their ...

Maple tree seeds and the spiraling pattern in which they glide to the ground have delighted children for ages and perplexed engineers for decades. Now aerospace engineering graduate students have ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's that time of the season if you have a silver maple tree in your yard or in the neighborhood. The seeds are falling in great ...

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 ...