Scientists are unraveling the mystery of magnetoreception, the ability of animals like birds and sea turtles to navigate ...

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The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of the planets magnetic field. Data from the European Space Agency's Swarm ...

The transient field-frequency domain of magnetic dipole in a two-layered conducting Earth has been studied. It is obtained as a summation of waveguide modes plus contributions from branch cuts in the ...

An Australian moth follows the stars during its yearly migration, using the night sky as a guiding compass, according to a new study.

Bogong moths use both Earth's magnetic field and the starry night sky to make twice-yearly migrations spanning hundreds of ...

A species of Australian moth travels up to a thousand kilometers every summer using the stars to navigate, scientists said ...

Sharks can navigate via Earth's magnetic field, study confirms for the first time. Scientists have long suspected the fish can travel by sensing the magnetic field, but no one knew how—until now.

Native to Australia, tiny Bogong moths travel hundreds of miles in an astonishing annual migration by using the starry night ...

Bogong moths use stars and Earth’s magnetic field to navigate epic migrations - revealing the first known stellar compass in ...

Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere and magnetic field make life possible, but scientists have discovered that there’s a hidden ...