By using nanotechnology engineers transform the spinach plant by putting electronic sensors on their leaves which helps the roots know if they come into contact with certain chemicals. The...

Spinach can’t send emails — but MIT’s nanobionic plants can signal pollution. Discover the science behind this viral myth.

A group of MIT scientists over in the US have taught spinach plants how to send emails. Unfortunately, we don’t mean they dumped an engineered clump of spinach leaves on a keyboard and...

Regardless of your personal thoughts on talking vegetables, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US have engineered spinach plants that can detect explosive material in soil and relay information back via email.

More accurately, engineers at the renown Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have used nanotechnology to transform ordinary spinach plants into sensors that detect explosive materials in...

As you may have heard, researchers at my lab have taught spinach to send emails. At first it was about using plants to find bombs, or something along those lines — it can be so hard to...

Scientists are using nanotechnology, which taps into plants and transforms them into sensors that pick up nitroaromatics in the groundwater. Once detected, the spinach sends a signal to an infrared camera, which triggers an email alert to MIT scientists.

Scientists recently taught spinach how to send emails, or at least to mimic the process. But this is not simply for fun, but to send warnings about climate change and explosive materials, EuroNews reported.

When a spinach’s roots detect a compound called nanoaromatics in groundwater, the plant’s leaves start emitting a specific signal. The camera picks up the signal and sends an email to warn the recipient about potential explosives.

Scientists say they have taught spinach to send emails as part of an effort to warn of impending drought.