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the California Institute of Technology
This article from Caltech describes how maple seeds spin as they fall to the ground. It also goes into the applications behind the research and includes a link to a video of the air around a spinning seed.
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![]() <a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/items/detail.cfm?ID=9678">California Institute of Technology. Maple Seeds and Animals Exploit the Same Trick to Fly. Pasadena: California Institute of Technology, June 11, 2009.</a>
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}
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