A few years ago he added a compass reading that
shows magnetic north, to help determine the prevailing wind.
Not exact matches
The world has its mysteries, and one of them is that dogs seem to know where
magnetic north is, as
shown by their orientation when they relieve themselves.
Research from
North Carolina State University and Carnegie Mellon University
shows that passing wireless power transfer through a
magnetic resonance field enhancer (MRFE)-- which can be as simple as a copper loop — can boost the transfer efficiency by at least 100 percent as compared to transferring through air alone.
Travis Horton at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, plotted the migratory tracks from each species over a detailed
magnetic map of Earth, which
shows how the
magnetic field's inclination and declination — the angular difference between the field lines and true
north — vary from point to point.
Upon exiting the heliopause, the local measurements of the
magnetic field by Voyager 1,
shown here as a compass needle, differed by 40 degrees from the «true
magnetic north» estimated to be the direction of the
magnetic field in the pristine interstellar medium.
Previous studies, led by Kenneth J. Lohmann of the University of
North Carolina, had
shown that hatchling loggerhead turtles can detect features of
magnetic fields known as inclination angle and field intensity.
His results
showed that around 1 billion years ago, Earth could have transitioned from a modern - looking field, having a «strong»
magnetic field with two opposite poles in the
north and south of the planet, to having a «weak»
magnetic field that fluctuated wildly in terms of intensity and direction and originated from several poles.
during defecation and the results
showed that dogs preferred to excrete with their body aligned along the
North - South axis under the earth's
magnetic field.