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

If you live somewhere with maple trees, you’ve probably seen their ... We estimated that raindrop collisions reduce a samara’s time in flight and the distance it travels while spinning ...

The spinning flight of a maple samara. From an engineering perspective ... of the "rolling samaras" found on tulip poplar and ash trees. These seeds rotate like maple samaras, but the wing ...

In early spring, a reddish haze appears in the woodlands. With most deciduous trees still dormant, the red maples are living ...