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Plants might be able to tell us about the location of dead bodies, helping families find missing people

  • Written by Neal Stewart, Professor of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee
Plants might be able to tell us about the location of dead bodies, helping families find missing peopleCan plants signal to us when they are sick or detect radiation?Sebastian Kopp/EyeEm via Getty Images

The notion of plants talking to us about dead people sounds like a bad horror movie. But that’s the theme of a recent scientific paper I co-authored.

Each day, over 160,000 people die in the world. Most people die with family members present...

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