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 ...

Winged seeds called samaras grow on maple trees. These are seeds from the Japanese maple, _Acer palmatum_. AlessandroZocc/iStock via Getty Images Plus When wind or other disturbances detach winged ...

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 ...

It's wet north of the border, too -- so wet that some producers there are using helicopters in planting. Canadian farmers are struggling with excess moisture and delayed planting, just like their ...

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 ...

When wind or other disturbances detach winged maple seeds called samaras from their parent tree, they spin through the air – ...