the researchers recorded both healthy and stressed tomato and tobacco plants using microphones. They conducted experiments in a soundproof chamber and later in a greenhouse with background noise. The plants were stressed in two ways, by withholding water for several days and by cutting their stems. The team then trained a machine learning algorithm to distinguish between healthy plants, dehydrated plants, and cut plants.
audio is uploaded in the article
Source : https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-plants-scream-we-just-couldnt-hear-them-until-now/
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Wow that’s my favorite song
I bet that wet brick sounds in a different way than a dry one.
ur a wet brick lol
I recall in college about 14 years ago we spoke about the electric impulses in plants and how they change in reaction to stress
I was thinking about pop science headlines in the nineties, maybe even earlier.
They pop and snap, calling that “screaming” is a bit sensationalist.
This is the kind of headline that hearkens the anti-vegetarians to claim nonsense arguments. “Plants scream when you cut them, so that means you’re a hypocrite because you’re hurting plants. Just look at this paper that says so!”
I thought they found this over a decade ago?
Now it’s reproducible bullshit.
Now I want to hook up a mic to my succulents and run a local ML model on a raspberry pi to water it.
Short story by Roald Dahl, The Sound Machine: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1949/09/17/the-sound-machine
any day that includes roald dahl is a good day. thank you!
I’ve known about the Screaming Trees for decades.
They discovered this in the 70’s. Lyall Watson’s Supernature documented plant reactions, even when cutting a leaf taken from the plant. It may not have been the most rigorous science, I don’t know. But it did encourage thinking outside the box for ways to attempt to learn about the natural world.
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
Finally, a reason to consider vegetarianism
