It sounds like a nice joke, doesn't it? The idea that your peace lily is gossiping with your fern, or the tomato plants are coordinating their growth spurts. Well, it's not a joke at all. Plants have ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University discovered for the first time that animals respond to sounds made by plants. The study, published in the journal eLife, found that female moths avoid laying eggs on ...

Plants are living beings and can supposedly react the same way as humans can. However, their reactions are yet to be wholly understood by researchers. A new study published in the journal eLife claims ...

Your garden might not be as silent as you think. A new study shows that plants communicate distress via sounds that—while too high-pitched for humans to hear—might be picked up by other plants and ...

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.

The next time you find yourself lulled by the patter of rain outside your window, think how that same sprinkle might sound if you were a tiny seed planted directly below a free-falling droplet. Would ...

We may very well be able to translate plant languages soon, scientists claim. While you might think of plants as passive objects just existing on our planet, they are, in fact, living beings, and they ...

It seems like Roald Dahl may have been onto something after all: if you hurt a plant, it screams. Well, sort of. Not in the same way you or I might scream. Rather, they emit popping or clicking noises ...