Loggerhead turtles are able to sense Earth's magnetic field in two ways, but it wasn't clear which sense the animals use to ...

In 1882, the French Naturalist Camille Viguier was among the first to propose the existence of a magnetic sense. His ...

For nearly two centuries, physics textbooks have treated light as magnetically indifferent to the materials it passes through ...

New research shows that light’s magnetic field is far more influential than scientists once believed. The team found that ...

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Multiple lines of evidence suggest that pigeons sense magnetic fields by detecting electric currents in their inner ears.

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Loggerhead hatchlings travel thousands of miles guided by an astonishing built-in navigation system that uses the Earth’s magnetic field. Scientists trained young turtles to “dance” in response to ...

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Geologists discovered ancient rocks in Greenland that preserve the oldest known traces of Earth’s early magnetic field.

NASA detects first “magnetic switchback” near Earth: an energetic change in your space shield that reveals new solar risks.