The Underground Internet Mycelium are incredibly tiny threads of fungal organisms that wrap around or bore into tree roots, ...

Volatile compounds drifting on the breeze. Electrical pulses firing under bark. Scientists are discovering that trees are anything but silent.

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 ...

Every other Friday, NHPR's Outside/In team answers a listener question about the natural world. This week’s question comes from Jenna in Cupertino, Calif. How do plants communicate with each other?

Whenever a solar eclipse occurs, life seems to stand still for a brief moment. Humans watch the sky, animals display eccentric behaviors, but what about plants? It turns out that plant life has its ...

There have been incredible findings by researchers in recent years concerning how plants in our landscapes communicate with one another and insects. Would you believe that some plants send out SOS ...

The machine, with sharp teeth and a long metal rod, sounds like a kitchen blender, but this is far from your average appliance. “This is a tissue homogenizer,” said Jesse Woodson, an associate ...

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.