From a seed-inspired design to a 26-minute flight time on a single rotor, a new monocopter developed by SUTD researchers ...

If you live somewhere with maple trees, you’ve probably seen their striking helicopter seeds – made up of a seed pod attached to a delicate wing. Maple samaras’ unique design and spinning ...

Gadgets Maple Seeds Inspired This Lightweight Low-Power Microdrone That Can Fly For Almost Half an Hour Developed at the City University of Hong Kong, the spinning drone can also capture stable video.

When a batch of the Acer i-Seeds are dropped from a drone hovering over a field, their bio-inspired shape causes them to spin through the air as they fall instead of just plummeting straight down ...

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 ...

Maple samaras represent just one way that seeds use the wind to disperse farther. A dandelion’s parachute-like float relies on the seed’s light weight and high drag.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. (THE CONVERSATION) When wind or other disturbances detach winged maple seeds called samaras ...

Maple samaras’ unique design and spinning movement can teach physicists like me about seed dispersal patterns and even engineering new types of flying vehicles.