Plants do not stay silent. New research shows how plant diversity changes smell based communication across ecosystems.

Learn how plants communicate through chemical signals, and why losing biodiversity can disrupt these hidden communication ...

Is it true that plants communicate by sending chemical signals through the air?

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?

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 ...

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 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 ...

Researchers at Purdue University and UC Davis have found that petunias cannot properly form reproductive structures without chemical signals delivered between different parts of the plant. The work ...

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.