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 numbers this year. Now I know what it must be like to try to clean up ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – You may have noticed something different about the maple tree seeds this year: they’re pink. In the past few weeks, maple trees have been dropping samaras, or more commonly ...
Farmers are often seen driving tractors or combines. But flying a helicopter to plant seed? Now that's different. A helicopter piloted by Nathan Schrock, of Crosswind Aviation in LaCrosse, recently ...
Whether you know them as samara seeds, maple seeds, or helicopter seeds, most of us know the seeds that spin down to the ground on one or two blades. They have been served as the inspiration for ...
Researchers at Northwestern University is moving the goalposts on how small you can make a tiny flying object down to 0.5 mm, effectively creating flying microchips. Although “falling with style” is ...