🧠 The humble moss growing on your walls and sidewalks produces complex electrical waves that look startlingly like neural activity. Scientists recorded fast spikes, rhythmic fluctuations, and slow depolarization waves traveling through moss cushions — signals that resemble action potentials and neuron-like spike trains normally associated with brains. A computer scientist spent 178 hours monitoring common rough-stalked feather moss (Brachythecium rutabulum) and found that moss cushions behave as interconnected excitable systems, coordinating signals across space and time. The researcher proposes that moss could serve as a living substrate for biohybrid sensors and unconventional computing. doi.org/10.1098/rsos.252341 #Science #Botany #NeuralNetworks #Mosstodon