Watermelons can offer a nice explosion of flavor in your mouth, but they shouldn’t be spontaneously combusting. Oddly enough, that’s exactly what some fans of the popular fruit are worried about ...

When it’s time for the hairyflower wild petunia to pass its genes to the next generation, it does it with a bang. To reproduce, the plants flings tiny seeds from a small torpedo-shape fruit more than ...

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