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Electrical Plant Communication
A team of scientists in Singapore have attached a communications device to the surface of a Venus flytrap to enable it to close on command upon electrical stimulation. The same device also allows electrical signals from the plant to be measured.
A 2021 paper by Dr. Steven Businger examines why Hawaii is the Rainbow Capital of the World, owing to a combination of wet climate, sinking air, and topography.
An international team of scientists has uncovered a previously unknown phenomenon, called a space hurricane, which is a swirling mass of plasma with precipitating electrons, occurring in the upper levels of the atmosphere near the North Pole.
A 2021 study from the University of Rhode Island has uncovered microbial life that can thrive under the seafloor, getting its energy from the breakdown of water by naturally-occurring radioactive elements.