For humans, communication can be as easy as an eyebrow glance, a subtle cough, or even an emoji. Plants, on the other hand, don’t have eyes, ears, or the ability to use an iPhone, so how exactly do ...

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?

In Lena Mueller’s lab at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, dead plants are OK. “Don’t worry, it’s on purpose,” said Kelly Semtner, Mueller’s high school intern, gesturing at a row of wilted ...

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.

Recent research by a team of Japanese scientists has uncovered an intriguing aspect of plant behavior: communication. Joining us today is Sarah Gillespie from Gillespie Florists to share more ...

"Originally published in Germany in 2015 as Das geheime Leben der Bäume"--Title page verso. SERC copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Contents Foreword / by Tim Flannery -- ...

The idea that trees communicate and share resources with each other via an underground network of fungi, sometimes called the “wood wide web”, has little evidence to back it up, say researchers who ...