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When the seeds come unattached from the head of the flower, the parachute bristles catch a ride on the wind, carrying the seeds away. “We noticed that the dandelion parachute is closed in foggy ...

Each dandelion seed is tethered by a thin tube to around 100 bristles, which form the parachute-like structure. When seeds break free from the flower head, these bundles of hairs catch the wind ...

Wind is very important for dispersing seeds ... the air as they fall or the light feathery seeds from a dandelion that can catch on the breeze. The longer a seed stays in the air, the farther ...

Dandelion seeds can fly for incredible distances ... It’s significant enough that it increases the drag on each seed, allowing wind to catch the seeds and carry them for long distances.

Carried by the wind, dandelion seeds can travel enormous distances of more than a kilometer (0.6 miles). Now, researchers at The University of Edinburgh have discovered that this is thanks to a ...

Eventually these insights could be used to design tiny drones that ride the wind. When a dandelion seed takes flight, its downy fluff serves as a tiny parachute to carry it on the breeze.

When you’re essentially a little ball of floof, flying is hard. To ride the wind, dandelion seeds stir up a weird type of whirlpool in the air directly above them. The newly discovered way of ...

Dandelion seeds are one of nature's most ... "When seeds break free from the flower head, these bundles of hairs catch the wind and carry their seeds. This hairy parachute closes when the air ...