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A ship’s steel hull distorts the Earth’s magnetic field, which can throw the magnetic compass dangerously off course. This explains how binnacles, Kelvin’s balls, Flinders bars, and other correctors ...

Spintronics—a technology that harnesses the electron's magnetic quantum states to carry information—could pave the way for a new generation of ultra-energy-efficient electronics. Yet a major challenge ...

There are millions of birds flying under the blue sky in this world. Whatever the weather conditions are, they fly high above in the sky and live their life freely. Beneath their effortless flight, ...

New research reveals how the invasive fall armyworm uses a combination of the Earth's magnetic field and visual cues to navigate during night-time migration.

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Nocturnal insects may use both Earth's magnetic field and visual cues to guide their migratory flight behaviors, according to recent findings. The research, published in eLife, presents compelling ...

Nocturnal insects may use both the Earth's magnetic field and visual cues to guide their migratory flight behaviours, according to recent findings.The ...

To address this, the researchers used a flight simulator system that allowed individual moths to fly in any direction while attached to a tether ( Dreyer et al., 2021 ). The researchers were able to ...

A common Polaris failure starts with a compass. The needle points toward magnetic north, then the search shifts to that ...

Live View in Google Maps uses your phone’s camera and augmented reality (AR) to overlay directions directly onto the real world. Instead of looking at a 2D map and guessing which way you’re facing, ...

Deep in lakes and muddy sediments, certain bacteria navigate using an internal compass made of iron crystals. For decades, scientists have known these microbes align with Earth’s magnetic field – but ...