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🤔What makes the amethyst deceiver (Laccaria amethystina) deceptive? 🟣🍄As the purple fungus ages, it loses its color and becomes harder to identify and distinguish from other mushroom species. It’s not poisonous, but it can absorb toxins from soil. One might spot it in temperate forests throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Photo: Maja Dumat, CC BY 2.0, flickr #AmethystDeceiver #nature #mushrooms #dyk #fungi

The idea could gather steam after a New Zealand-based company successfully demonstrated its wireless energy transmission. https://t.co/DnOuZiSLW2

Researchers in New Zealand have uncovered an intriguing factor that could affect the size of the next destructive earthquake in the Hikurangi subduction zone: fossils of tiny marine organisms that lived tens of millions of years ago. https://t.co/Us3RZRFZEk https://t.co/7UOWUJDXw5

Life might be inherently self-destructive. https://t.co/EFRBfe8KzA

The X2 is the latest generation of flying cars independently developed by XPeng Aeroht. https://t.co/B4Cbdt5lKs

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There are many elements that determine how we age. This includes our genetics, the environment, and our age itself. But what key component has the most profound impact on aging? https://t.co/NdGNiXi2bY https://t.co/LAV3AkrjhR

A former IE editor's new book explores the explosive history of private space. https://t.co/eQS8BSgZKz

*cries in fully charged iPhone that runs out of battery by lunchtime*

US President Andrew Jackson's critics called him "jackass" so much that Jackson used the donkey as a symbol of the Democratic Party.

Ada overcame a tragic and lonely childhood to carve her place in history as world's first computer programmer. https://t.co/jRsP0iBBbx

A 120,000-mile-long filament from the Sun headed toward Earth. Do you think these filaments might one day become a genuine threat to us?

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Only 1% of people wish they could know exactly what will happen in the future.