Nocturnal insects may use both the Earth’s magnetic field and visual cues to guide their migratory flight behaviours, according to recent findings. The research, published in eLife as a Reviewed ...

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Desert ants can sense the North-South direction of the magnetic field to determine the direction of their nest entrance during so called learning walks. How exactly magnetoreception works in animals, ...

Check your compass again – Earth’s north magnetic pole is moving toward Siberia. Since at least the early 19th century, Earth’s north magnetic pole has been situated in the Canadian Arctic and slowly ...