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A houseplant transformed everything we thought we knew about consciousness

Balananda May 24, 2026 80 0

In 1966, Cleve Backster, a CIA interrogation specialist with a polygraph machine, was looking for ways to time how long it took different substances to travel up through plant tissue. So, he attached electrodes to a dracaena plant in his office and watered it, expecting to see the electrical conductivity modification as water moved…
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Can plants hear their pollinators?

Balananda Jun 9, 2025 630 0

When pollinators visit flowers, they produce a variety of characteristic sounds, from wing flapping during hovering, to landing and take-off. However, these sounds are extremely small compared to other vibrations and acoustics of insect life, causing researchers to overlook these insects' acoustic signals often related to wing and body…
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Bees Seem To Have A Collective Human-Like Intelligence

Balananda Apr 3, 2024 971 0

The humble bumblebee is proof that brain size isn’t everything This little insect with its wee, seed-sized brain has shown a level of collective intelligence in experiments that scientists thought was wholly unique to humans. When trained in the lab to open a two-step puzzle box, bumblebees of the species Bombus terrestris could…
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Mysteries of some atmospheric halos remain unexplained after 5,000 years

Balananda Oct 21, 2022 1,234 0

The origins of some atmospheric optical illusions remain unknown, even after millennia of observation. For the first time in almost 5,000 years of observations, researchers have fully cataloged optical illusions created in the sky as light shines through ice crystals known as atmospheric halos. The atmospheric halo ‘inventory’…
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Is This Man-Made Underground Complex One Million Years Old?

Balananda Feb 5, 2022 1,350 0

While most researchers and scholars around the globe agree that human civilization as we know it only has only existed for some 12,000 years on our planet, there are countless discoveries that point towards a much different past. There are many findings ranging from temples, structures, and artifacts that are evidence of advanced…
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Mysterious blue: nature’s rare flower color exists thanks to bee vision

Balananda Jan 28, 2022 1,172 0

Along with the question, “Where do babies come from?” perhaps one of the most common questions children ask is “Why is the sky blue?” When you consider that blue is one of the rarest colors found in nature, it’s interesting that the sky, the most prominent natural expanse in the world just occurs to be blue. And why is it that blue is…
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The psychic cat – do you have one?

Balananda Dec 11, 2021 1,318 0

The feline family has always been shrouded in mystery and majesty. In ancient Egypt, cats were revered for their supposed supernatural abilities and in some cases they were thought to be of the gods, showing themselves in a primordial form. In modern times, cats are still looked upon with great awe and curiosity. And for good reason.…
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Sharks use Earth’s magnetic field like GPS, study suggests

Lallananda Oct 24, 2021 967 0

A new study published in the journal Current Biology suggests that sharks use the Earth’s magnetic field to find their way in the sea. Researchers led by biologist Bryan Keller reported this after exposing bonnethead sharks to different magnetic conditions. In one test, the bonnetheads were tricked into thinking that they were located…
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Secrets of a tree whisperer: ‘They get along, they listen – they’re attuned’

Balananda Sep 12, 2021 1,544 0

Suzanne Simard revolutionised the way we think about forests, trees, plants and fungi with the discovery of the woodwide web. The ecologist’s new book shares the wisdom of a life of listening to the forest. When Suzanne Simard made her extraordinary discovery – that trees could communicate and cooperate through subterranean…
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Giant tortoises can remember their training even after 10 years – study

Balananda Sep 6, 2021 1,387 0

Scientists discovered that giant tortoises can remember skills that they learned a decade ago, exceeding their reputation as animals lacking in speed and cognitive ability. In their report, a research team from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology studied Galapagos and Seychelles tortoises at zoos in Vienna and Zurich for nine…
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