⭐ In 2015, employees at Burr Oak Cemetery were convicted for exhuming old graves to resell plots, dumping older remains elsewhere. Forensic evidence from moss played a key role in their conviction.

🌿 A new paper in Forensic Sciences Research details how moss, a resilient and informative plant, can be used in forensic investigations, following up on a 2025 paper showing limited historical use of bryophytes in such cases.

🏛️ Burr Oak Cemetery, founded in 1927, is the resting place for notable figures like Emmett Till and Ezzard Charles. The grave desecration was discovered in June 2009, with skeletal remains visible and headstones removed to make space for new burials.

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⚡️ Moss cushions exhibit surprisingly complex electrical activity, with dynamic waves of patterns undulating across them, according to new research by computer scientist Andy Adamatzky published in Royal Society Open Science.

⚡️ The study, focusing on the moss species Brachythecium rutabulum, found that these ancient plants, lacking vascular systems and roots, display electrical events including fast oscillatory spikes, rhythmic fluctuations, and slow depolarization waves, resembling neuron-like spike trains.

⚡️ Adamatzky's findings suggest that moss cushions act as "spatially distributed excitable systems" capable of coordinating electrical signals across space and time, hinting at their potential for unconventional computation and biohybrid sensing, though further research is needed to confirm these possibilities.

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