Learn more about squirting cucumbers (Ecballium elaterium) and how their seeds explode out of them, which could lead to ...

Not only is the Hill Country known for flash floods, but the Texas legislature implemented the first cloud seeding program in west Texas in 1955.

Photograph by Marie Viljoen, from Seeds are masters of engineering when it comes to dispersal. Milkweed seeds fly on the barest of breezes. Velcro was inspired by burdock burrs. And a personal ...