Sentences with phrase «internal magnetic compass»

The bats use the way the Sun's light is scattered in the atmosphere at sunset to calibrate their internal magnetic compass, which helps them to fly in the right direction, a study published in Nature Communications has shown.

Biologists Kenneth Lohmann and Larry Boles at the University of North Carolina discovered that the spiny lobster Panulirus argus, an invertebrate not celebrated for brainpower, relies on an internal magnetic compass.

Even resident birds that do not migrate in the spring and autumn have a magnetic sense and navigate using their internal magnetic compass.

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have made a key discovery about the internal magnetic compass of birds.

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Magnetotactic bacteria can even sense the earth's magnetic field by making use of magnetic nanoparticles in their interior that act as an internal compass.

With the new work, the blind mole rat joins the small league of animalsincluding birds, fish and turtlesthat uses an internal compass to read the earths magnetic field.

Bird expert Henrik Mouritsen says night - migrating songbirds find their way northward using a combination of enhanced night vision and an internal compass that can sense and create a visual map of the invisible magnetic field surrounding the earth.

Since intense solar storms can disturb the magnetic field, the scientists wanted to determine whether they could, by extension, actually interfere with animals» internal compasses and lead them astray.

Disrupting the fish's internal compass with the magnetic pulse triggered changes in 181 out of the roughly 40,000 genes they examined.