A team of scientists have measured electrical activity in a spruce forest during a partial solar eclipse. They report that signals within and between trees appear to synchronize in the course of the ...

Monica Gagliano received funding for this research from the Templeton World Charity Foundation. Prudence Gibson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

Trees, or forests for that matter, hardly seem like they’ve got anything interesting going on, given that they mostly stay ...

Electrical signalling plays a pivotal role in how plants perceive and respond to their environment. Rapid electrical impulses, including action potentials (APs) and slower variation potentials (VPs), ...

Earth’s cycles of light and dark profoundly affect billions of organisms. Events such as solar eclipses are known to bring about marked shifts in animals, but do they have the same effect on plants?