File this story under “Science is Fun”!

Perhaps it’s every kid’s dream – as they slave away at their obligatory school science project –  that their findings will rock the scientific community.

Well, it just so happens – that happened!

A group of ninth-graders at a school in Denmark tried to grow some fast-acting seedlings next to a Wi-Fi router and the little buggers wouldn’t sprout, and kind of died. But the same seeds in a room away from the Wi-Fi thrived.

Mother Nature Network reports:

The students placed six trays filled with Lepidium sativum, a type of garden cress, into a room without radiation, and six trays of the seeds into another room next to two routers that according to the girls’ calculations, emitted about the same type of radiation as an ordinary cellphone.

Over the next 12 days, the girls observed, measured, weighed and photographed their results. By the end of the experiment the results were blatantly obvious — the cress seeds placed near the router had not grown. Many of them were completely dead. Meanwhile, 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 …  (and) a neuroscience professor at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, is interested in repeating the experiment in a controlled professional scientific environment

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