Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Plants can sense and react to temperature changes, harsh winds and even human touch. But can they hear? They have no specialized structure to perceive sound ...

Previous studies have suggested that plant growth can be influenced by sound and that plants respond to wind and touch. Now, researchers, in a collaboration that brings together audio and chemical ...

The forest really does hum with life. Though often too low or too high for human ears to detect, insects and animals signal each other with vibrations. Even trees and plants fizz with the sound of ...

A small, flowering plant called Arabidopsis thaliana can hear the vibrations that caterpillars trigger when they chew on its leaves. According to a new study, the plants can hear danger loud and clear ...

According to new research, plants can actually hear the sounds of insects chewing. A University of Missouri study is the first work to report that plants can recognize the sound of a predator through ...

This is a question that I am often asked because I do research on how plants respond to the vibrations that occur naturally in their environment. Sound is perceived as vibrations. There is no ...

In 1986, when he was a mere prince, King Charles, Britain’s eco-minded monarch, told a television interviewer that it was important to talk to one’s plants. He was widely mocked. But that piece of ...

Pseudoscientific claims that music helps plants grow have been made for decades, despite evidence that is shaky at best. Yet new research suggests some flora may be capable of sensing sounds, such as ...

Plants can sense and react to temperature changes, harsh winds, and even human touch. But can they hear? They have no specialized structure to perceive sound like we do, but a new study has found that ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Previous studies have suggested that plant growth can be influenced by sound and that plants respond to wind and touch. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri, in a ...