Artist Leslie Garcia has used transducers and amplifiers to translate the "language" of plants into sounds audible to the human ear. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you ...

Plants make popping sounds that are undetectable to the human ear, according to recordings made in a new study — and they make more sounds when thirsty or under other kinds of stress. The research ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Researchers have detected, for the first time, plants emitting airborne ...

Picture this: you are napping on your couch, amid the scorching heat. Then you hear the soft patter of rain against your window. The sound gently pulls you awake. Now imagine being a tiny seed buried ...

What does a stressed plant sound like? A bit like bubble-wrap being popped. Researchers in Israel report in the journal Cell on March 30 that tomato and tobacco plants that are stressed—from ...

The next time you find yourself lulled by the patter of rain outside your window, think how that same sprinkle might sound if you were a tiny seed planted directly below a free-falling droplet. Would ...

Many people believe that playing music to plants makes them grow better, but scientists would say that’s absurd. New research from Australia might prove them wrong though. Monica Gagliano, an ...

Just like humans and other animals, plants have hormones. One role of plant hormones is to perceive trouble—whether an insect attack, drought or intense heat or cold—and then signal to the rest of the ...

Just like humans and other animals, plants have hormones. One role of plant hormones is to perceive trouble and then signal to the rest of the plant to respond. A multicenter team is reporting new ...