A new study published in Nature Communications details a hybrid robot that combines the wind-driven mobility of tumbleweeds ...

I was watching kite surfers harness the wind to carve sweeping arcs and achieve effortless lifts…Yet, I realized nature had ...

A local photographer spent seven years chasing tumbleweeds through rural communities, laboratories, and pop culture—all on a quest to understand one of the West’s most humble, sometimes ...

Wind speeds on Mars are high enough to blow fleets of large spherical rovers that resemble tumbleweed across the Red Planet's surface, according to new wind-tunnel tests of small prototypes conducted ...

A giant tumbleweed roughly the size of a Volkswagen beetle was spotted hurtling its way down a four-lane road in California this week. The jaunty brown bundle of brush was captured on video and posted ...

Desertification is a massive problem across the globe. We have a general idea of what causes it: unsustainable agricultural practices, mining, climate change, general land overuse. But much like ...

Two invasive species of tumbleweed have hybridized to create a new species of tumbleweed that University of California, Riverside researchers found has dramatically expanded its geographic range in ...

Tumbleweed looks harmless in films, rolling across deserts like scenery, rather than something dangerous. In reality, it has ...

The openSuSE project offers two distributions: Tumbleweed, which is a rolling distribution that gets continuous updates, and Leap, which is a point distribution that gets periodic updates. Looking at ...