Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Kiel have provided experimental evidence ...

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

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

Signals transmitted via leaves can warn neighboring plants of stressful events, making the group collectively more resilient ...

Plants mobilise their immune defences far earlier than scientists have believed for decades—and through a previously overlooked early signalling mechanism—according to a new study published in Nature ...

To navigate, the brain must convert changing sensations into a map-like sense of the world, which remains stable as the body moves. A new study finds that the fly brain sometimes performs the ...

The discovery that tissues use electricity to expel unhealthy cells is part of a surge of renewed interest in the currents ...

Female moths avoid laying eggs on stressed plants that emit ultrasonic sounds. Instead, they choose silent, healthy plants.

A tiny worm turns static electricity into a powerful weapon, launching itself through the air to catch flying prey.

Deep within an Indonesian rainforest, a team of research scientists recorded something that had never been captured before: a Sumatran orangutan they’d affectionately named Rakus carefully treating a ...

This approach eliminates costly metals, toxic chemicals and specialised fabrication infrastructure — opening the door to ...

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