Squirting cucumbers blast their seeds over distances hundreds of times their length, and now scientists say they have found ...

Squirting cucumbers shoot their seeds up to 33 feet (10 m) away from the mother plant to avoid overcrowding and competition, ...

Pumpkins feature so prominently on our Thanksgiving tables—usually in the form of pumpkin pie—that they are worth a bit of ...

We bet that once you’ve checked some boxes on your fall bucket list—like doing a fall reset or celebrating the first day of ...

One of the most famous ballistic dispersers is Ecballium elaterium, a.k.a. the squirting cucumber. Upon ripening, its fruits explode and fire their goo-covered seeds distances of 10 to 20 feet or more ...

The amount of food consumed every year at Thanksgiving is actually associated with a large carbon footprint, according to experts. Although Thanksgiving may be the holiday best known for indulging, ...

The squirting cucumber shoots its seeds so fast that scientists had to use techniques like high-speed videography to record ...

They filmed the seed dispersal using a high-speed camera, which captured up to 8,600 frames per second. They then measured ...

A team led by the University of Oxford has solved a mystery that has intrigued scientists for centuries: how does the ...

The quirky plant, a relative of the edible cucumber, ejects its seeds at a whopping 44mph - even faster than the human ...

The squirting cucumber Ecballium—not to be confused with the exploding cucumber Cyclanthera—is not a showy plant. It meanders ...