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

Pigeons have long stunned scientists with their ability to cross unfamiliar landscapes and still find their way home, even when landmarks vanish and the sky is overcast. Researchers are now closing in ...

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

Explore how to calculate the magnetic force on a current-carrying loop from a long straight wire! This tutorial breaks down the physics concepts behind magnetic fields and forces, perfect for physics ...

Recently the MagQuest competition on improving the measuring of the Earth’s magnetic field announced that the contestants in ...

Loggerhead turtles are able to sense the Earth’s magnetic field in two ways, but it wasn’t clear which sense the animals use to detect the magnetic field when navigating using the magnetic map they ...

A new tool developed by Helmholtz Munich and the German Center for Diabetes Research and the University of Bonn makes spatial ...

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

Pigeons can sense Earth’s magnetic field by detecting tiny electric currents in their inner ears, a team of researchers suggests. Such an inner compass could help to explain how certain animals can ...

Wednesday marks day two of Compass’s preliminary injunction hearing in its antitrust lawsuit against Zillow. The hearing, which is being held in New York City under the auspices of U.S. District Court ...

Like anything, you can take patterning a shotgun too far. A turkey hunter told me once he spent $1,000 one winter buying XX-Full chokes and magnum loads for his guns, then he patterned them all to ...