A world memory champion and a neuroscientist have joined forces to create a language-learning website called Memrise, which combines mnemonic tricks with a game to help users learn quickly and ...

Maybe when leaves whistle in the breeze, plants are really speaking to each other. A study published today in this week's Science journal unearths a new language spoken by plants. Jim Westwood, ...

For thousands of years, humans have observed plants with fascination, marveling at their shapes, colors, and scents. However, until recently, we often considered them as simple passive organisms, ...

Plants may have their own language that allows them to communicate with each other by sharing genetic information. This language could be what helps weeds when they take over other plants. Jim ...

Talking plants might sound like characters in a fairy tale. But recent scientific studies have revealed that plants communicate with each other and with other living things in a surprising number of ...

Latin might seem like an obscure, inscrutable language for naming plants. But it can open up the botanical world in ways you can’t imagine. By Margaret Roach The plants are trying to tell us something ...

A new artificial intelligence-powered model is able to understand the genetic “language” of plants, according to researchers. Known as Plant RNA-FM, and believed to be the first of its kind, the model ...

Parasitic weeds use an RNA-based "language" to communicate with their host plants — perhaps to get them to lower their defenses, scientists report. "The discovery of this novel form of inter-organism ...

Researchers have revealed a previously unknown way plants shape their growth in response to light — a breakthrough that could better equip crops to handle environmental stress. In a first-of-its-kind ...