Pigeons may sense Earth’s magnetic field using their inner ear, sending signals to brain areas that help with navigation and ...

For just over two years, a scalar magnetometer developed by Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) and the Space Research Institute (IWF) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has been on its way to ...

Fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and even a few mammals rely on magnetoreception for navigation. But the exact mechanism ...

RIKEN physicists have found a magnetic material that converts heat into electricity with high efficiency, making it promising for use in energy-harvesting devices. The work is published in the journal ...

The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...