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24 February 2021, 8:00 am EST By Scientists claimed that spinach plants can send an email, which is an unusual ability for this kind of living organism. They said that by inserting carbon nanotubes in the plants leaves, the organism can detect the presence of nitroaromatics, which is a compound usually used in landmines and other explosives.   (Photo : Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Miguel Chateloin (L) and Lazaro Gamio use their computers to write code that would allow people living in C...

Scientists Have Created Spinach That Can Send Emails. Heres How It Could Fight the Climate Crisis. The tech could be used to detect abnormalities in soil that could help fight climate change. . Ever wondered what your salad is thinking at lunch time? Do you often wish it could communicate with you via the digital convenience of email? What do you mean, no? Regardless of your personal thoughts on talking vegetables, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US have ...

Novel Analytical Tools Developed by SMART Key to Next-Generation Agriculture Written by AZoOpticsFeb 10 2021 Researchers from the Disruptive & Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, and Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL), highlight the potential of recently developed analytical tools that are rapid and non-destructive, with a p...

A 2016 study about scientists receiving alerts from spinach went viral this week, bringing fresh attention to the emerging field of plant nanobionics—and sparking plenty...

Spinach is certainly an unbeleafable plant, having been used by scientists to grow human heart tissue and even to make batteries with enough energy to power an electric car. Right now an MIT study is blowing up in the news, with mainstream media outlets claiming that “spinach can send emails.” But can it? Eh, not exactly. More accurately, scientists insert nanoparticles into spinach leaves, and these nanoparticles are utilized as sensors to detect explosives and also emit infrared light. Th...

“Plants are very good analytical chemists,” explains Professor Michael Strano told EuroNews. “They have an extensive root network in the soil, are constantly sampling groundwater, and have a way to self-power the transport of that water up into the leaves.” But it’s hard to really talk to plants (though heaven knows I try all the time to talk to my plants, they don’t talk back in very detailed ways). “This is a novel demonstration of how we have overcome the plant/human communicat...

Scientists have used nanotechnology to teach spinach to send emails and neizens cant keep calm.

Plants are ideally suited for monitoring the environment. Engineers have transformed spinach plants into mini bio-sensors that can detect explosives and other chemical compounds and wirelessly send this information to users. Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers used a technique called vascular infusion to embed the leaves with carbon nanotubes. The nanotubes are designed to detect chemical compounds known as nitroaromatics, which are used in landmines and other explosives. When pres...

While it’s unlikely that your email inbox would contain a message sent by spinach, it’s not impossible. In late 2016, engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) published a study [PDF] in the journal Nature Materials detailing how they taught spinach plants to transmit automatic emails. The news recently re-circulated, due in part to an updated article from Euronews, and social media users wasted no time in churning out all their best spinach-related jokes. Comical though it ...

Answer: Yes.