Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In experiments with rice seeds submerged in water, MIT researchers found that the sound of falling droplets shook the seeds out of ...

MIT researchers have found that rice seeds can detect the sound of rain, triggering germination up to 40% faster. The study, the first to provide direct evidence of seeds sensing natural sounds, shows ...

MORE than half of campers say the sounds of the outdoors help them get a better night’s sleep than if they were in their own bed. A poll of 1,000 people who often go camping revealed 56 per cent of ...

A team of engineers have discovered that rice seeds can ‘hear’ the sound of rain, which acts as a biological trigger to wake them from dormancy. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

A Co Donegal fashion designer is discovering the sounds of nature for the first time, thanks to the new bionic ear he had fitted 10 months ago. Liam Grier (38) had spent most of his life in the silent ...

Rain does more than soak the ground. For some seeds, it may also act like an alarm clock. MIT engineers have found evidence that the sound of falling raindrops can speed up germination in rice seeds, ...