For most of modern science, humans were believed to lack any ability to sense Earth’s magnetic field. Magnetoreception was considered a specialised adaptation found in migratory birds, sea turtles, ...

Researchers taught young loggerhead turtles to associate certain magnetic fields with feeding, prompting a distinctive dance when they recognized the signal. After a magnetic pulse briefly disrupted ...

In the late 1800s, the French naturalist Camille Viguier proposed an idea that would be dismissed and forgotten for more than a century. He speculated that birds and other animals could navigate with ...

Every holiday season there is a mass migration of humans towards home and family. We use many tools to help us navigate back to the places we’re from — from simple maps to sophisticated GPS — but ...

The universe's first magnetic fields may have been much weaker than we first imagined — and were roughly equivalent to the strength of the magnetic activity within the human brain, according to a new ...