Given enough time, jumping beans will always find their way out of the sun. Jumping beans, which are really seed pods with twitchy moth larvae inside, hop around in a way that — if they live long ...

Mexican jumping beans have been a curiosity for many an inquisitive child, and yes, they really do “jump,” thanks to the presence of tiny moth larvae inside the seed pods. According to a recent paper ...

What makes Mexican jumping beans jump? Research reveals that Mexican jumping bean larvae respond to different colors of light, jumping more vigorously under different hues, which can help them avoid ...

Just like the peanut is not really a nut and the pineapple is not an apple, not all "beans" are beans. Perhaps the most remarkable of all the beans-that-are-not-really-beans are Mexican jumping beans, ...

Money sure seemed to go a lot further when I was a kid. When Mama gave me my weekly allowance of 50 cents on Saturdays, I’d waste no time jumping on my bike and heading downtown, sometimes cruising ...

ALAMOS, Mexico — Tipping up the bottom of a blue plastic bucket, Jose Trinidad Hurtado Solis poured his paltry crop of Mexican jumping beans onto a homemade sieve in his back yard. “This is all I’ve ...