Early cave paintings of hunting scenes may give the impression our Stone Age ancestors lived mainly on chunks of meat, but plants — and the ability to unlock the glucose inside — were just as key to their survival. Plants rich in starch helped early humans to thrive even at the height of the last ...
Though some people worry about air pollution and cover their faces with masks when going out of their homes, very few people are aware that the air they breathe inside is much more polluted. This is why air-purifying plants are a necessity in homes and workspaces. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, indoor air ...
Although people generally carry the assumption that plants do not communicate, plants communicate with each other in amazing ways. Many studies in the past suggested that this is not true, but in a new study published in PLOS ONE, a team of researchers reaffirms what scientists have always suspected — that plants communicate with each ...
An international team led by the Freiburg plant biologist Prof. Dr. Thomas Laux has shown that there is communication in plants, that mother plants guide the development of their embryos using the hormone auxin. In the future, this result might help breeders grow plants that are more resilient in the face of environmental challenges. The ...
Your days start and end with sensory feelings and all of your decisions, voluntary and involuntary, are governed by your senses and feelings. However, how many take the time out to wonder if plants and animals have feelings too? We are surrounded by them, and yet we fail to recognize that both plants and animals ...
Is it possible to demonstrate that there is pain in plants and animals? There is an old folk tale from the Solomon Islands that goes something like this: If there is an old tree that needs to be felled and is too big to use an ax, it can be brought down without actually cutting it ...
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