Monarch butterflies use a magnetic compass to migrate, researchers found Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap messages Get the USA TODAY app U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment ...

A new study suggests that these Australian insects may be the first invertebrates to use the night sky as a compass during ...

Billions of birds travel distances incomprehensible to humans annually. Some, like the Arctic tern, log sufficient miles in ...

As Mouritsen pointed out in his 2011 paper, a bird with just one magnetic compass would be more easily affected by eye damage or infections. That may be true, but in everyday use, ...

Today, compasses come in a variety of shapes and sizes and are used for a wide range of applications. Types of Compasses. There are several types of compasses, each with its own unique features and ...

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The team still has to improve the precision of its tiny compasses before bringing them out into the real world. But the researchers hope that, one day, airplane pilots could use atoms to fly around ...

Compasses rely on our magnetosphere to work, and Mars no longer has a magnetosphere. "When you navigate with a compass you can orient yourself thanks to Earth's global magnetic field. But on Mars ...

Dividers and compasses are drawing instruments that have been used since antiquity to measure distances, transfer lengths from one drawing to another, and draw circles. The Greek mathematician, Euclid ...