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Plants make ultrasonic sounds that can be heard under stress


Written by Alex Dearman In a landmark paper, researchers from Tel Aviv have demonstrated that plants under stress produce airborne sounds that can be detected and identified. Machine learning models have also revealed the plant’s stress condition, based purely on the acoustic emission.

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