Canada's new defence initiative

Wed May 11, 3:31 PM ET

"PARIS (AFP) - A tiny Canadian shrub is the quickest-moving thing in the plant world, using a catapult mechanism to eject its pollen at a speed hundreds of times faster than a launched rocket, scientists have found."

AFP/Nature - Wed May 11, 3:31 PM ET (AFP/Nature/D. Whitaker, M. Laskowski, A. Acosta, J. Edwards)


... 'course its range needs to be worked on.