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

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

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

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 ...

Whether you want to save money on seeds next year or you just want to expand your garden knowledge, here's how to save your ...

Squirting cucumber uses high-pressure seed ejection for dispersal, with seeds reaching speeds of 20m/s and landing up to 10m ...

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

Squirting cucumbers blast their seeds over distances hundreds of times their length, and now scientists know how the plants do it. A squirting cucumber in action is a remarkable sight, but if you ...

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