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Showing Original Post only (View all)Student science experiment finds plants won't grow near Wi-Fi router [View all]
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http://www.mnn.com/health/healthy-spaces/blogs/student-science-experiment-finds-plants-wont-grow-near-wi-fi-router
Five ninth-grade young women from Denmark recently created a science experiment that is causing a stir in the scientific community.
It started with an observation and a question. The girls noticed that if they slept with their mobile phones near their heads at night, they often had difficulty concentrating at school the next day. They wanted to test the effect of a cellphone's radiation on humans, but their school, Hjallerup School in Denmark, did not have the equipment to handle such an experiment. So the girls designed an experiment that would test the effect of cellphone radiation on a plant instead.
The students placed six trays filled with Lepidium sativum, a type of garden cress into a room without radiation, and six trays of the seeds into another room next to two routers that according to the girls calculations, emitted about the same type of radiation as an ordinary cellphone.
Over the next 12 days, the girls observed, measured, weighed and photographed their results. Although by the end of the experiment the results were blatantly obvious the cress seeds placed near the router had not grown. Many of them were completely dead. While the cress seeds planted in the other room, away from the routers, thrived.
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Student science experiment finds plants won't grow near Wi-Fi router [View all]
IdaBriggs
May 2013
OP
Possibly but it certainly begs further study and therefore was a successful experiment.
Kablooie
May 2013
#37
That would be good, but they would also need the person watering the plants not know
Thor_MN
May 2013
#153
I promise you that the plants growing next to the router will not be dead ...
Buzz Clik
May 2013
#66
Definitely deserving of more research. Good on the girls regardless of eventual outcome. nt
stevenleser
May 2013
#11
It is the results of a regional science fair that is generating international interest
IdaBriggs
May 2013
#147
Ida- for a lot of DU'ers it's not about conversation but proving ones intellectual superiority.
KittyWampus
May 2013
#118
And for others it's not about understanding another's point, but proving one's ignorance.
cleanhippie
May 2013
#164
"can only shake my head in awe at those who believe that all the discoveries have already been made"
winter is coming
May 2013
#122
We had to constantly cut the weeds growing around the 50KW transmitter antennas.
hobbit709
May 2013
#19
Here is a real life experiment that proved to be the cause of dying plants in my home.
kelliekat44
May 2013
#23
No need to debate. The test will be refined and run by others and the truth will out.
GoneFishin
May 2013
#24
I'm skeptical.. the statistics is way too much for not to be observed long ago. My bet is that it...
JackN415
May 2013
#25
And driveways. Grass is low along driveways and tree trunks are rarely by them also.
uppityperson
May 2013
#103
I was amazed last summer. I went to work one morning, came home and all the trees along the power
Thor_MN
May 2013
#154
My cell phone instruction book advised not to waer next to body......its a prepaid samsung.....
Gin
May 2013
#34
I had a cousin who never used a cell phone, died of brain cancer at 50. Didn't use cordless phones
uppityperson
May 2013
#104
I know a lot of people who use cell phones but don't have brain cancer. I haven't seen reputable
uppityperson
May 2013
#135
I am convinced that my daughter's MMR vaccination is related to her development of IBD
Ms. Toad
May 2013
#152
A lot of people boost wifi range by making little antenna dishes out of tinfoil.
backscatter712
May 2013
#91
(most) Everyone is waiting for better science. (most) Everyone is applauding...
Junkdrawer
May 2013
#93
Yeah, my 1994 Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley is about to be made worthless
MNBrewer
May 2013
#127
The woo is the presumptive theory that non-ionizing radiation could have an effect on living matter.
Thor_MN
May 2013
#155
+1. It's one thing to observe that plants didn't grow in the wi-fi room
winter is coming
May 2013
#165
Wow. Glad my wireless router is in another room & I don't use cell ph. much.
Honeycombe8
May 2013
#131
We are bathed by radiowaves every second of our lives. Most of them are not from humans.
Gravitycollapse
May 2013
#136