At some point or another, most of us have played travel agent to a dandelion. Blowing on their tufted tops is a childhood rite of passage for many, and a simple puff of air is all it takes to send the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For many of us, the dandelion is our first introduction to magic. Someone, maybe a parent or an older sibling, taught you to pick ...

It's a summer staple: fluffy clouds of dandelion seeds wafting through the summer air. You'll be seeing a lot of them in the weeks to come. As dandelion season reaches its peak, mature plants will ...

Long haul flight: micro CT image of a dandelion seed with yellow false colour. (Courtesy: Madeleine Seale and Alice Macente) A brush-shaped structure called a pappus creates vortex rings that help ...

As the warm summer months creep nearer and spring flowers begin to bloom, many of us will find some less welcome blossoms on our lawns. Dandelions are one of the most troublesome weeds, and anyone ...

Carried by the wind, dandelion seeds can travel enormous distances of more than a kilometer (0.6 miles). Now, researchers at The University of Edinburgh have discovered that this is thanks to a ...

Don't be disappointed if all the fluffy seeds of a dandelion don't fly away with a single blow. The gust of wind from your lungs may be strong, but the dandelion's natural desire to control how its ...

In her animated film Dandelion's Odyssey, Japanese director Momoko Seto explores the theme of migration – something seen ...