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pazimzadeh•about 2 hours ago

Cool study. Not too surprising though given how much time plants have had to optimize growth.

Kind of similarly, you don't need to swallow high energy drinks to get the performance benefits.

unfitted2545•about 1 hour ago

Could this not be the sublingual absorbtion of sugar rather than seemingly random "brain signals" the article suggests?

bandofthehawk•about 1 hour ago

I was thinking along similar lines. If this was purely due to brain signals, I would think the artificial sweetener would also work.

namegulf•about 2 hours ago

Plants are living things

Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds