For decades, researchers have known that homing pigeons can return to their loft from ...

Eric J. Warrant is in the Lund Vision Group and in the Department of Biology, University of Lund, S-22362 Lund, Sweden. In the case of FAD, the odd electron that arises from reduction in the presence ...

Many animals are known to navigate by sensing the Earth’s magnetic field, including bacteria, birds, bats, eels and whales. Some observations suggests that even dogs and cows sense the Earth's ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Figure 2: Percentage of correct choices by four individually trained homing pigeons (P1–P4) discriminating the presence and ...

Magnetoreception enables animals to sense magnetic fields, which helps them navigate and orient themselves through the perception of location, direction or altitude. It’s been established that a ...

From sea turtles to the humble pigeon, many species have the ability to sense the Earth’s magnetic field and use it as a compass to navigate. But despite decades of research, scientists are still not ...

New research published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences from a team of scientists from Japan reports observations of the first-ever documented biological ...

Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100% energy and water independent on his off-grid compound in the New Mexico desert. Eric uses his passion for writing about ...

This combined analysis revealed the presence of superparamagnetic macrophages in homing pigeon livers. Macrophages are ...

A study carried out by geoscientists and neurobiologists at Caltech and the University of Tokyo has shown that the human brain responds to changes in the Earth’s magnetic fields on a subconscious ...