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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
imageCan plants signal to us when they are sick or detect radiation?Sebastian Kopp/EyeEm via Getty Images

The 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...

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