Plants lack nerves, yet they can sensitively detect touch from other organisms. In the Venus flytrap, highly sensitive sensory hairs act as tactile sensing organs; when touched twice in quick ...

Charles Darwin spent years puzzling over how the Venus flytrap snaps shut its jaw-like leaves so fast; now, a French team says it has the answer. In a study published in Science, physicist Yoël ...

The plants use that information to speed digestion, the scientists found, BBC News reports. Conducting a study, the scientists recorded the impulses generated by these hairs and measured changes ...

Pity the poor fly that lands on a Venus flytrap. When the insect touches hair-like structures on this ​remarkable carnivorous ...

‘It’s very surprising that plant cell walls can tune their mechanical properties so fast,’ Dr Yoël Forterre said.Photograph: marcouliana/Getty Images/iStockphoto The Venus flytrap is one of nature’s ...

There aren’t many plants kids would name as their favorite. It’s probably a pretty short list that includes classics like roses, Christmas trees, and, of course, the perennial favorite: the Venus ...

The Venus flytrap possesses sensory hairs that detect prey via touch stimuli. Bending of the sensory hair trigger Ca 2+ and electrical signals that propagate to the leaf blade. Video 1: ...

Scientists from Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Robotics, Soochow University of Sciences have studied a bio-inspired sensor that consists of a rigid rod and a flexible base rod with a ...