Some seeds can even travel hundreds of miles. The spinning flight of a maple samara. From an engineering perspective, the insights gained from our study could inform the design of new types of ...

Not only do we plan to compare their flight performance against the more recognizable maple samara, but we will also study how these seeds respond to perturbations such as wing damage and crosswinds.

The spinning flight of a maple samara. In a February 2025 study , my colleagues and I filmed raindrops as they crashed into autorotating samaras. The samaras shed drops by shattering them ...

As winter fades and the sap begins to flow, The Wild Center invites the community to celebrate one of the Adirondacks’ ...