Sentences with phrase «use magnetic compasses»

It seems that although zebra finches do not undertake extensive migration, they still might be able to use the magnetic compass for local navigation,» says Atticus Pinzón - Rodríguez.

Europeans: Eventually, Europeans learned to navigate using a magnetic compass and an accurate clock.

Behavioral experiments have shown that night - migratory passerine birds can use a magnetic compass to orient during migration [e.g. 1], [2] and recent data suggest that the magnetic compass is used as the birds» primary compass in mid-air during real migratory flights [3].

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Ren's system uses the magnetometer in a phone, which is there for the phone's compass, to detect a magnetic field.

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

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.

If you hold the compass horizontal, the needle will do one of three things: point to the same spot as the last time you used it, spin slowly before stopping at a random point or point to anything magnetic that you happen to be wearing.

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.

A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that non-migratory birds also are able to use a built - in compass to orient themselves using the Earth's magnetic field.

Not only migratory birds use a built - in magnetic compass to navigate correctly.

Again the Chinese knew as early of the 5th century of the attractive properties and direction - seeking ability of the lodestone and how to make steel behave similarly, though the magnetic compass was not used for navigation until perhaps as late as the 10th century.

From compasses used in ancient overseas navigation to electrical motors, sensors, and actuators in cars, magnetic materials have been a mainstay throughout human history.

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.

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.

Another is that there may be photopigments in the eye called cryptochromes that detect the magnetic field chemically and provide a visual cue that an animal can use as a kind of compass.

Humans use GPS devices and Google Maps to guide them home, but loggerhead turtles still prefer a magnetic compass.

Since the 1970s, researchers have suspected eels could sense magnetic fields, and a 2013 study proposed the animals used a «magnetic compass» to orient using the North Pole.

The magnetic North Pole, used by a compass, is not affected.

Earth has its own magnetic field, which is why we can always use a compass to find the north pole no matter where we are.

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Known as a «quantum compass», this revolutionary method would use the subatomic effects on Earth's magnetic field and could one day be employed in smartphones.