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To capture the communication, these scientists used an air pump connected to a container of leaves and caterpillars, and another box with Arabidopsis thaliana, a common weed from the mustard family.
Experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats is attempting to capture history with the Millennium Camera: a camera designed to take an image of a Tuscon, Arizona landscape over the next thousand years. The camera, as reported by the New York Post, overlooks a soon-to-be housing development in front of the mountainous range. Keats, a professor at the University of Arizona College of Fine Arts, has stated the art/science project is an attempt to provide a time capsule for the people of 3023, of what has and has not changed in the Tucson landscape, per New Atlas.
Scientists have filmed neighbouring plants "chatting" and receiving warning messages from each other in groundbreaking footage.
You will think twice now before forgetting to water your plants.
We already know that a precise range of wavelengths within daylight triggers a light-sensitive photoreceptor in the back of your eye, causing the body's internal clock to reset. Those receptors are called "intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells" (or ipRGCs), according to Science Alert...