Plant Magnetism

All joking about animal magnetism aside, this news is pretty wild and cool: Venus flytraps product magnetic fields while they consume their prey. It's not a huge reaction, understandably; anyone who's had a Venus flytrap knows that the carnivorous plant doesn't need a lot of live insects to consume, nor does it need them often. You can kill one by giving it too many, in fact! So it makes sense that the magnetism produced is also a small amount.

Experts say the magnetic field isn't made as anything useful to the plant's environment but a probably byproduct of the energy involved in the process. Still, it's a pretty weird and neat new fact.

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