As married research professors at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Dustin Gilbert and Anne Murray often discuss their work once they get home each night. Their fields of study rarely crossover.

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 ...

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 ...

Behavioural experiments have shown that diverse animals can detect the Earth's magnetic field and use it as a cue for guiding movements over both long and short distances. However, whereas receptors ...

A significant research grant from the Wellcome Trust will allow a team of researchers to identify the biological mechanisms through which magnetic forces affect animals, including humans. Scientists ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The “sixth sense” birds use to visualise Earth’s magnetic field has been demystified, as two teams of scientists claim to have identified the source of their powers. Birds are known to navigate using ...