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 ...

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 ...

You may have noticed lots of those helicopter maple tree seeds filling up rain gutters or piling up on the sidewalk this year. State Forester Tivon Feeley says the large amount of seeds created a ...

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 ...

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 ...

What's wrong with the maple trees? They look dead, and their bare branches are covered in brownish "spinner" seeds instead of leaves. Worried homeowners across the state are calling their local OSU ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Courtesy photo New England draws ‘leaf-peepers’ to take in the beauty of the fall season as the foliage changes color. “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into ...

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 ...