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“Michael Strano led the research team who birthed the world’s first cybernetic spinach plant. He is a professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT. “This is a novel demonstration of how we have overcome the plant-human communication barrier,” Strano said.” http://bigthink.com/philip-perry/we-have-overcome-the-plant-animal-communication-barrier-mit-professor-claims View in LinkedIn

EMAIL ALERTS FROM PLANTS. "MIT engineers recently accomplished this, allowing a spinach plant to send an email to a smartphone when it encountered nitroaromatics—chemical compounds found in many types of explosives. The plants roots picked up this compound, which was sent to the leaves, where nanotube sensors triggered a signal.” http://bigthink.com/philip-perry/we-have-overcome-the-plant-animal-communication-barrier-mit-professor-claims View in LinkedIn

WHY CLOUDS DON'T FALL. "Upward vertical motions, or updrafts, in the atmosphere also contribute to the floating appearance of clouds by offsetting the small fall velocities of their constituent particles. Clouds generally form, survive and grow in air that is moving upward. Even a large droplet having a radius of 100 microns has a fall velocity of only about 27 centimeters per second (cm/s). And because ice crystals have more irregular shapes, their fall velocities are relatively smaller." http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-clouds-float-when/ View in LinkedIn