It's widely understood that animals such as salmon, butterflies and birds have an innate magnetic sense, allowing them to use the Earth's magnetic field for navigation to places such as feeding and ...

Researchers in Oregon State University's College of Agricultural Sciences have taken a step closer to solving one of nature's most remarkable mysteries: How do salmon, when it's time to spawn, find ...

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 ...

The Imprint Happens on the Very First Night A loggerhead sea turtle hatchling weighs about 20 grams when it breaks out of its ...

When magnetotactic bacteria follow their internal compass, they are not seeking the proper route from north to south, but instead are seeking the bottom of oceans, rivers, or other bodies of water.

Magnetite, a magnetic iron oxide mineral, is showing up in a place it doesn’t belong: the brain. Scientists first discovered magnetite particles in human brains more than two decades ago that had ...

Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are a metabolically, morphologically and phylogenetically heterogeneous group of mainly aquatic prokaryotes that passively align and actively swim along magnetic-field ...

A miniature detector could pick out magnetic rocks on Mars that might harbour telltale signs of ancient life. The instrument could select rocks that contain a magnetic compound – magnetite – that is ...

NEWPORT, Ore. – It’s widely understood that animals such as salmon, butterflies and birds have an innate magnetic sense, allowing them to use the Earth’s magnetic field for navigation to places such ...

Scientists suggest magnetite crystals that form inside specialized receptor cells of salmon and other animals may have roots in ancient genetic systems that were developed by bacteria and passed to ...