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 ...

Keith Urban's "Tumbleweed" is a pickup attempt from someone ready for a little adventure. The brand-new track debuted on Friday (Aug. 28). At just under three minutes, "Tumbleweed" is quintessential ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tumbleweeds come in the midst of a perfect storm of severe drought, fields with no cover crop, and unusually high winds. They have a hard time where the native grasses are flourishing. (Flickr/ Brad ...

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 ...

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 ...