The first part of the study was simple enough, just studying the design of a dandelion seed with ultra-precise X-ray scans and regular light microscopy. The authors dutifully report that each pappus, ...

Because dandelions can reproduce both sexually (through pollination) and asexually, every seed emerging from a dandelion’s head can have ... equations could aid the design of better ...

For the dandelion, the seed head is about 90 per cent porous ... The research suggests this design works well at a very small scale and hope it can be useful to improve drone technology to ...

Pop off most dandelion heads and, just for a second, white sap oozes freely from the wound. Pop the head off a new genetically engineered dandelion, however, and white sap oozes for minutes ...

design and perfection. The first attractive quality of the Dandelion clock is its down-soft, puffy, see-through roundness, its near-perfect spherical shape. If the ball-shaped head doesn't fall ...