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 ...

Introduction Have you ever looked outside on a windy day and seen "helicopter" seeds spinning through the air? Or picked up a dandelion and blown on it, sending the tiny, fluffy seeds flying all over ...

"That is the speed of the Nanfan 'Silicon Valley'." "Nanfan" refers to the practice of using the warm southern climate to grow multiple generations of seeds per year, thereby shortening the breeding ...

Germination is a crucial stage in the life of a plant as it will leave the stage of seed resistant to various environmental constraints (climatic conditions, absence of nutritive elements, etc.) to ...

The ongoing civil war in Syria has led to the first-ever withdrawal from the Svalbard "doomsday" Global Seed Vault, a giant storage unit for plant seeds that's tucked into the side of a frigid ...

"Seeds of Science: Why we got it so wrong on GMOs" (Bloomsbury), by Mark Lynas. Mark Lynas has written a timely and important book about changing sides on the controversial topic of genetically ...