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What Are Venus Flytraps Doing With Magnetic Fields? – Gizmodo Australia
A team of researchers recently strapped a dismembered carnivorous plant to a sensitive instrument in Berlin, in a room that shuts out the world’s magnetic noise….
A team of researchers recently strapped a dismembered carnivorous plant to a sensitive instrument in Berlin, in a room that shuts out the worlds magnetic noise. It was a Venus flytraps jaw really a specialised leaf and when the team turned up the heat, the jaw summoned the energy to try to close. In that moment, a magnetic field emanated from the trap.
The field was picked up on an atomic magnetometer, an instrument that deduces a change in magnetic fields in the spin of electrons. The teams research…
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