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Spinach In Your Inbox: 2016 Study On Scientists ‘Teaching’ Spinach To Send Emails Goes Viral

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The internet went into a frenzy on Tuesday after Euronews resurfaced a 2016 study about scientists “teaching” spinach plants to detect explosives and send emails.

The study, titled “Nitroaromatic detection and infrared communication from wild-type plants using plant nanobionics” was originally published in the journal Nature Materials. Plant nanobionics refers to the scientific practice of altering plants with extremely small particles to give them new abilities.

In the study, researchers from MIT and the University of California, Riverside, embedded tiny sensors made of carbon nanotubes into spinach leaves so they could detect nitroaromatic compounds, which are often found in explosives. Once the roots came into contact with these compounds, the sensors in the leaves issued a fluorescent signal that was detected by an infrared camera attached to a small computer that sent researchers an email alert.

“Plants are very good analytical chemists,” MIT’s Michael Strano, one of the authors behind the study, told Euronews. “They have an extensive root network in the soil, are constantly sampling groundwater, and have a way to self-power the transport of that water up into the leaves.”

Strano added that plants could already detect oncoming droughts as well as subtle changes in soil and water, and plant nanobionic research could be extremely useful in the near future in detecting pollutants and combating environmental changes.

Although the study was conducted back in 2016, “spinach” and “email” began trending across social media on Tuesday as Euronews’ revival of the power of plants went viral.

Pressures really ramping up on my grandma to learn how to use her iPad now that spinach is sending emails

— Matilda Boseley (@MatildaBoseley) February 2, 2021

3 months from now there will be nazi spinach pic.twitter.com/TJJNOIrvnC

— Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans) (@IwriteOK) February 2, 2021

Men will literally teach spinach to send emails instead of going to therapy

— Eddie Robson (@EddieRobson) February 2, 2021

To: farmer
From: spinach
Re: Upcoming drought

Dear Farmer,

I hope this e-mail finds you moist…

— Justaboringgreyrock (@Justaboringgre1) February 2, 2021

Length of spinach’s email.
vs
Content in spinach’s email. pic.twitter.com/ZB1JoMHMZT

— Ólafur Waage (@olafurw) February 2, 2021

the rotting spinach at the bottom of my crisper:

“AS PER MY LAST EMAIL…” pic.twitter.com/TB3gP7UDJk

— Lukas Neville (@lukasneville) February 2, 2021

I wrote a story about spinach sending emails and woke up to it being one of the top trends on Twitter.

I love this bird app.

Also it’s a genuinely awesome story.

Plants are being nano-engineered to detect landmines, pollution and droughts!https://t.co/pn3ovBHAQ1

— Marthe de Ferrer (@MarthedeFerrer) February 2, 2021

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