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 ...

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 ...

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 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.