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
Can plants signal to us when they are sick or detect radiation?Sebastian Kopp/EyeEm via Getty ImagesThe 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...