In fact, sometimes there’s too much regeneration of pine cone seedlings, in the amount of five seedlings per square foot, or 200,000-300,000 per acre.

Pine cones are pretty smart for things with no brains, enough so that scientists have copied them to create a unique window shading system. The setup blocks sunlight in the summer and lets it ...

Pine cones are a well-known bionic model for constructing artificial actuators. ... Drawing inspiration from this observation, the researchers prepared one-dimensional (1D) ...