The vestibular system, a set of structures in the inner ears that helps with balance, may grant the birds their special ...

As such, researchers at Cambridge University and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been studying tiny ancient fossils ...

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

Pigeons may sense Earth's magnetic field using special cells in the inner ear. This discovery explains how they navigate long ...

New research is turning a long‑standing hunch about sea turtles into a detailed map of how these animals read the planet ...

Scientists find baby loggerheads feel Earth’s magnetic field to know where they are, reshaping our understanding of sea ...

New research is revealing that baby sea turtles do not simply drift on ocean currents during their first epic journey.

The sun is on the verge of a significant event: a magnetic field reversal. What causes this switch in polarity, and is it dangerous for anything on Earth? Let's take a deep dive into the phenomenon of ...

Many people may not be aware that scientists produce graphical representations of the Sun's magnetic field lines everyday in all of the AIA extreme ultraviolet images as well as for the HMI ...

Using state-of-the-art microscopy LMU neurobiologists have identified a dedicated neural pathway for processing magnetic ...