The Truth About Touch-Me-Nots: Why Some Plants Really Do Explode
Everyone remembers the first time a seed pod snaps under your fingers – the soft click, the sudden jolt, the tiny seeds flung like confetti. It feels mischievous, like the plant’s playing a prank, but there’s hard engineering buried in that moment. For centuries, people mistook these small blasts for botanical quirks when they are, ...
