{"id":29574,"date":"2013-06-10T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=29574"},"modified":"2015-05-06T12:52:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T11:52:55","slug":"student-science-experiment-finds-plants-wont-grow-near-wi-fi-router","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/06\/student-science-experiment-finds-plants-wont-grow-near-wi-fi-router\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Science Experiment Finds Plants Won\u2019t Grow Near Wi-Fi Router"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five ninth-grade young women from Denmark recently created a science experiment that is causing a stir in the scientific community.<\/i><\/p>\n

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\u2019s radiation on humans<\/a>, but their school,\u00a0Hjallerup 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.<\/p>\n

The students placed six trays filled with\u00a0Lepidium sativum<\/i>, a type of garden cress\u00a0into a room without radiation, and six trays of the seeds into another room next to two routers that according to the girls calculations, emitted\u00a0about the same type of radiation as an ordinary cellphone.<\/p>\n

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 \u2014 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.<\/p>\n

\"Photo<\/a>

Photo courtesy of Kim Horsevad, teacher at Hjallerup Skole in Denmark.<\/p><\/div>\n

The experiment earned the girls top honors in a regional science competition and the interest of scientists around the world.<\/p>\n

According to Kim Horsevad, a teacher at Hjallerup Skole in Denmark were the cress experiment took place, a neuroscience professor at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, is interested in repeating\u00a0the experiment in controlled professional scientific environments.<\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The results were blatantly obvious \u2014 the cress seeds placed near the radiation emitter Wi-Fi router had not grown. Many of them were completely dead. While the cress seeds planted in the other room, away from the routers, thrived. The experiment earned the girls top honors in a regional science competition and the interest of scientists around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,62,142,52,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-media","category-education","category-health","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}