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.

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

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 ...

Understanding Plant Pain As children, we often heard our parents warn us against plucking leaves at night, claiming that ...

Imagine walking through a field of crops and hearing high-pitched clicks emanating from the plants. While this may sound like science fiction, it’s a reality that scientists are now studying. These ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

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 ...