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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 plant's 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 Cuba to use email to post to blogs during the Hackathon for Cuba event on February 1, 2014 in Miami,...

Scientists Have Created Spinach That Can Send Emails. Here's 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 engineered spinach plants that can detect explosive material in soil and relay information back via...

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 proof of concept through first-generation examples. The analytical tools are able to provide tissue-c...

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. The spinach absorbs groundwater up through its roots, and when the nanoparticles sense the presence of...