{"id":621486,"date":"2026-04-22T17:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/621486\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:30:24","slug":"mit-study-finds-plants-can-hear-rain-and-it-makes-them-grow-faster-oc-today-dispatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/621486\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT study finds plants can hear rain, and it makes them grow faster &#8211; OC Today-Dispatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi9AFBVV95cUxQNmtJdVpLZEUteWpiQ24zXy0tNTRyMnBieGlOQkU3Yk1lbWY2d0lOVFRZaE4wdEFmUHY1a0ZfcmZRaUMwd285YWVVSmg3YzlEUFQwU0hENFA1Q0JRSmtIN0ZGMTdsTHg4blNLVFRwU2lqdnJDWWR2MXhGOVhnRFB0ZHMwYk54THZLRFVxd1NiZ1RlMkFwTC13NTBVQk1TeUE3MXRaNEZpTXJYQXBSenRuTzVQM1VLenRQc1M5TDFHeGRaMW9WYlIweTQ1ajZGYXM2Q1huR0IzamJUMTJNWVNKNUlwdkVGY1luUnlMNkhsMnBla3VQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MIT study finds plants can hear rain, and it makes them grow faster<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;OC Today-Dispatch<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMingFBVV95cUxQNEkweFRmbmNzek0xTGFBQU9QM3VVRnFlblM0TDlqQlZRRmFqSHNnRVNvamFwd3V0MWNFMDhxbS0tcm9zUFlnM3VkRllFWm5HTWdlTEFjZm9TTXZubmdlcEd3ZU9CTER2UFBkMmYxTTZmOXNsQ0FGbnVKOUpXakptUTFJZEpNSW9NdTZpY3R4eTJhRmxlYXpGSXlCcDFBQQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Plants can \u2018hear\u2019 rain coming, spurring them into action<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Scientific American<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMibkFVX3lxTE5SR25keFh4RDBoeEV3anpWbmpTOExha1NOZGc0eTVGdHF6RzdQNGY1WFZaOVgtcC1KVTlEcllJVXNMaDI5enVPUDNGRDVKVm81dTExOFFqcUNTYk91Mk8xcWNqRTBnOEdMejBmVXFR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Plants can sense the sound of rain, new study finds<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Phys.org<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi0wFBVV95cUxQcDljT2lMRHJUcDV6MVFLR0hMc0R5aklMM0ZkRTVwY2wzcmhDcUx3bWtkTFVya3BJd1JXcTQ5ZkY3cVB6WFlEb2Y5RlNENktDS2ltTkUwYzUzRS1tVzVZT2w1cHZlRXNod0NzRTBscG9PVHRPTVlmQ0JHdlE2cDJRa3VfcjMtUmtTa24xZHBZSTJnVkc2ejVPZUpORXBhczdXMFhkYktIZlVmeFV5b19tc2F4YVVNREp1M2F4ZW9GUXZmWlRxRzlEVXB6Y2JKd1psVjdn?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The secret sensory life of plants: researchers are discovering how they see, hear, feel \u2013 and even remember<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Conversation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIT study finds plants can hear rain, and it makes them grow faster&nbsp;&nbsp;OC Today-DispatchPlants can \u2018hear\u2019 rain coming,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66,23441],"class_list":["post-621486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-stephen-beech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}