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Five ninth-grade students from Denmark created a science experiment that is causing a stir in the scientific community.
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. So the girls designed an experiment that would test the effect of cellphone radiation on a plant.
The students placed six trays filled with a type of garden cress into a room without radiation, and six trays of the seeds into another room next to two routers that emitted the sameradiation as a cellphone.
Over 12 days, the girls observed, measured, weighed and photographed their results— 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.
The experiment earned the girls top honors in a regional science competition and the interest of scientists around the world.
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. So the girls designed an experiment that would test the effect of cellphone radiation on a plant.
The students placed six trays filled with a type of garden cress into a room without radiation, and six trays of the seeds into another room next to two routers that emitted the sameradiation as a cellphone.
Over 12 days, the girls observed, measured, weighed and photographed their results— 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.
The experiment earned the girls top honors in a regional science competition and the interest of scientists around the world.
