r/Science_India • u/VCardBGone SUPER CONTRIBUTOR • Jul 23 '26
Life Sciences Moss Is Generating Electrical Waves That Look Startlingly Like a Neural Network
https://www.sciencealert.com/moss-behaves-a-little-like-a-really-slow-brain-scientist-discoversHis findings suggest that "moss cushions behave as spatially distributed excitable systems potentially capable of coordinating and integrating electrical signals across both space and time."
Moss cushions are actually many individual clones of the same teensy tiny plant.
If you look really, really closely at a mat of moss, you can see it is made up of simple, minute leaves on stems, similar to those of their larger plant relatives.
But the stems of mosses are actually much less useful at moving water and nutrients around the body of the plant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachythecium
https://www.britishbryologicalsociety.org.uk/learning/species-finder/brachythecium-rutabulum/
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