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The squirting cucumber can blast its seeds dozens of feet from the parent plant. The stem and fruit of the plant have been colored green in this image. | Adapted from F. Box, D.E. Moulton ...

There is a fruit called the ‘squirting cucumber’ that fires its seeds like mini ballistic missiles. But how does it do this? Researchers seem to have solved this mystery — a question that has baffled ...

The only way to have a bug fixed or a new feature accepted is to describe it with a Cucumber feature. Let's say you think you have found a bug in the cucumber:install ...

"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 ...

Except the specific cucumber species in question has a unique way of dispersing its seeds—in a ballistic jet of mucus. An interdisciplinary team of scientists led by the University of Oxford has ...

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To promote her latest Khy holiday collection, Kylie Jenner made a hilarious Instagram video making fun of older sister Kendall Jenner, and the supermodel’s viral cucumber slicing moment.

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