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New Research Shows Your Plants Could Be Silently Screaming at You

If you’re like me, you’ve managed to kill even the hardiest of indoor plants (yes, despite a doctorate in plant biology). But imagine a world where your plants actually told you exactly when they needed watering. This thought, as it turns out, may not be so silly after all. You might be familiar with the ...

April 10, 2023

Troy Oakes

Dry, brittle leaves on a dead tree branch.

Another First: Perseverance Captures the Sounds of Driving on Mars

As the Perseverance rover began to make tracks on the surface of Mars, a sensitive microphone it carries scored a first — the sounds of driving on Mars, including the bangs, pings, and rattles of the robot’s six wheels as they rolled over Martian terrain. Vandi Verma, a senior engineer and rover driver at NASA’s ...

March 23, 2021

Troy Oakes