Tomato and tobacco plants make distinctive sounds when cut or dehydrated, a new study has found. Those sounds change depending on the plant emitting them and the type and severity of the threat that ...

Warming temperatures are altering ecosystems worldwide, with research showing that a few plant species shape most of the ...

A new analysis of experimental data led by the University of Michigan has unveiled insights into why and how plant ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — A study out of Washington State University found plants can sense when they're being touched, even though they don't have nerves. One scientist heading up the study says the new ...

A study of Britain's native flowering plants has led to new insights into the mysterious process that allows wild plants to breed across species -- one of plants' most powerful evolutionary forces.

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 ...

In a new study, physicists from the United States and Israel may have gotten to the bottom of a quirky behavior of growing plants—and a mystery that intrigued Charles Darwin himself during the later ...

The next time you find yourself lulled by the patter of rain outside your window, think how that same sprinkle might sound if ...

The findings of a new study are the first direct evidence that plant seeds and seedlings can sense sounds in nature.