This tiny device could reforest the entire planet

This device corkscrews itself into the ground like a seed, and could just change the face of our planet! They are a newly created autonomous aerial seed that have some really cool and weird implications. Huge thank you to Danli Luo for talking about this paper with me: https://danli-luo.com/ Research paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05656-3 You can see more about the project here: https://www.morphingmatter.cs.cmu.edu/projects/seed Written by: Mitchell Moffit Edited by: Luka Šarlija Video footage credit: Filming and Editing: Lining Yao, Danli Luo, Guanyun Wang. Morphing Matter Lab, Carnegie Mellon University. Modeling: Teng Zhang, Syracuse University Animation: Chengyuan Wei, Morphing Program Co. Photo Credit: Morphing Matter Lab, Carnegie Mellon University FOLLOW US! Instagram: https://instagram.com/asapscience​​ Facebook: https://facebook.com/asapscience​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/asapscience​​ TikTok: @AsapSCIENCE