Caroline Wood
@sciencedestiny.bsky.social
Communicating stories of amazing research at the University of Oxford. Enthusiastically seeking out wonderful artisan cheese. Finding mountains and walking up them. Failing to write a novel. Occasionally doing craft.
Squirting cucumbers! Really enjoyed helping this story land some great coverage this week. Oxford University researchers have discovered the mechanism that enables the squirting cucumber to fire its seeds like ballistic projectiles up to 20 metres per second. Read more: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-11...
November 26, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Squirting cucumbers! Really enjoyed helping this story land some great coverage this week. Oxford University researchers have discovered the mechanism that enables the squirting cucumber to fire its seeds like ballistic projectiles up to 20 metres per second. Read more: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-11...