You’ve probably walked through a forest or garden and never once thought you were surrounded by constant conversations. Silent exchanges happening right beneath your feet. Plants might lack vocal cords or even brains, but they’ve developed incredibly sophisticated methods of sharing information with one another. They warn of dangers, share resources, recognize family members, and ...
Walk through a forest and it feels peaceful, almost silent – yet above, below, and all around you, plants are trading information in a frenzy of invisible messages. For most of human history, we assumed plants were passive, reacting slowly and blindly to whatever nature threw at them. Over the past few decades, though, ...
Walk through a quiet forest and you’re surrounded by conversations you can’t hear, signals sliding through the soil like whispered news. The storytellers are fungi, threading microscopic fibers through roots to connect shrubs, grasses, and towering trees. For decades, ecologists suspected this hidden web existed; now, careful experiments and new imaging tools are revealing how ...
