Scientists discovered a fern that can naturally produce rare earth crystals. | Hashem Al-Ghaili

Fern music. 🌿🎶 This fern is one of the first plants to return after lava cools, a pioneer species that helps rebuild soil on fresh volcanic rock. You can spot it by its bright chartreuse fronds, growing straight out of cracks in the hardened lava where almost nothing else survives. Here on the Big Island of Hawai‘i, I connected to its leaves, letting its electrical activity shape these tones in real time, a small pulse of life in a landscape born from fire. #hawaii #volcano #plantwave #plantmu