New research has found when plant leaves physically touch each other, they seem to form a biological signalling network to ...

Long journal capturing the shameplant (also knowns as Mimosa pudica, shy plant, touch-me-not, etc.) in a condensed time lapse ...

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A Washington State University study found that plants have feelings and can distinguish when touch starts and stops. “Even without nerves, plants can sense when something touches them and when it lets ...

PULLMAN, Wash. – Even without nerves, plants can sense when something touches them and when it lets go, a Washington State University-led study has found. In a set of experiments, individual plant ...

Sensitive plants (Mimosa pudica) quickly fold their many leaflets when touched, burned, or wounded. But the mechanism behind how these plants swiftly turn demure—and why—isn’t clear. New research ...