In the 1960s and '70s, a series of questionable experiments claimed to prove that plants could behave like humans, that they had feelings, responded to music and could even take a polygraph test.
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Scientists Just Found Out Plants ‘Talk’ to Each Other — Especially About Their Natural Enemies
Beyond the naked eye of humans, plants live in a fascinating world of fantasy. Unfathomable to human imagination, plants usually remain surrounded by a fine mist of airborne compounds that hang in the ...
Your garden might not be as silent as you think. A new study shows that plants communicate distress via sounds that—while too high-pitched for humans to hear—might be picked up by other plants and ...
In Lena Mueller’s lab at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, dead plants are OK. “Don’t worry, it’s on purpose,” said Kelly Semtner, Mueller’s high school intern, gesturing at a row of wilted ...
Climate journalist Zoë Schlanger says research suggests that plants are indeed "intelligent" in complex ways that challenge our understanding of... Plants can communicate and respond to touch. Does ...
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