The secret sensory life of plants: Researchers are discovering how they see, hear, feel—and even remember

Plants are often seen as passive organisms, rooted in one place and largely unable to react to the world around them. But a ...
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A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas

The life sciences focus on patterns, processes, and relationships of living organisms. Life is self-contained, self-sustaining, self-replicating, and evolving, operating according to laws of the ...
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Space and time: How to better understand biological processes in plants

If the perspective of space and time is not properly applied to plant research, the understanding of biological processes is limited as well as the response to the threats that endanger the life of ...
The New Yorker

A New Book About Plant Intelligence Highlights the Messiness of Scientific Change

During the nineteen-seventies and eighties, a researcher at the University of Washington started noticing something strange in the college’s experimental forest. For years, a blight of caterpillars ...