Five female students living in Denmark conducted an experiment and demonstrated that plants do not grow near wireless LAN routers. The Danish media DR reports.


The experiment was conducted by 9th grade students attending Hjallerup School in North Jutland, Denmark. They experienced poor sleep and difficulty concentrating at school the next day when they put their mobile phones on their bedside. For this reason, he wanted to examine the effects of mobile phones on the human body. However, the school the students attend did not have experimental equipment, so instead they decided to examine the impact on plants.

Upon the experiment, students cress prepared 12 trays that planted the seeds of vegetables called. Six of them were placed in a room without a wireless LAN router, and the remaining six were placed in a room with two wireless LAN routers. Students explain that they installed a wireless LAN router instead of a mobile phone because the router emits the same kind of electromagnetic waves as a mobile phone. For the next 12 days, the students continued to observe the seeds. The germination status was recorded in documents and images, and the weight of the tray was measured.

Twelve days later, garden cress in a room without a wifi router showed normal growth. However, many of the seeds placed near the WiFi router did not grow, and some were mutated or even withered. Lea Nielsen, one of the students who participated in the experiment, said of the results:

"I was really scared that it would have such a big impact. We were all stunned by this result."



Many researchers are interested in the experiment, according to Kim Horsevad, a teacher at the school who directed the experiment. One of them is Olle Johanson, a professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He said he would like to continue the experiment under the supervision of an expert.

"With limited understanding (for expertise) and limited laboratory equipment, the students did a great experiment and a good record. The details and accuracy are commendable. I chose Nasturtium. It also makes sense. I want to continue this experiment. "

Johanson says he wants to invite students to his laboratory in the future.

"I hope they will be on the path to research in the future, because they are natural researchers. Personally, I would like to welcome them to my team."

Of course, the students haven't decided on the future yet. However, he said he made a firm decision not to put his mobile phone near his bedside. Nielsen said:

"Nobody sleeps with their mobile phones on the bedside anymore. They either put them away or in another room. They decided to turn off their computers as well."