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

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

The hairy, ground-hugging vines of the squirting cucumber Ecballium elaterium might seem like an ordinary weedy plant. But ...

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

"Ballistic seed dispersal" is not something you see often in plants – and for good reason, perhaps, when you see just what the affectionately called squirting cucumber is capable of. Shunning external ...

To reveal the mechanism, the team employed the help of a high-speed camera that could capture up to 8,600 frames per second, ...

The affected products were sold at stores between Oct. 12 through this past Tuesday, Nov. 26, according to the Food and Drug ...

Blink and you might miss how quickly this squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium) ejects its seeds. The mechanics behind ...

Scientists from the University of Manchester have uncovered the secrets behind one of nature's quirkiest plants - the ...

Scientists unveiled the squirting cucumber’s seed dispersal mechanism, involving fluid redistribution and rapid recoil.

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