Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Winged seeds called samaras grow on maple trees. These are seeds from the Japanese maple, _Acer palmatum_. AlessandroZocc/iStock ...

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 ...

Students at the University of Maryland’s Clark School of Engineering have turned to nature to create a flying device that can hover and perform surveillance duties, and that could lead to applications ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 10—If you think you've been seeing an invasion of helicopters this year, you're not imagining things. Southern Minnesota ...

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 ...

The seeds that twirl down from maple treesevery spring can fly as far as a mile, with each wing-shaped seed spinning like a whirligig on the air. Studies have shown that the seed’s whirling, called ...

Like helicoptering maple seeds, tiny new fliers whirl gracefully as they glide. The miniature aircraft, which can be made as small as a grain of sand, could be dispersed by air over long distances.

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 ...