A thought occurred to me that I could probably draw a graph comparing the increased use of non-metallic motorcycle fuel tanks with the decreased availability of magnetic tank bags. The graph would ...

Young salmon with no experience of the world, and without any guidance, are able to use the Earth's magnetic field to find locations on the other side of the ocean. Using an inherited magnetic GPS, ...

For decades, satellites have enabled people to peer back at their planet, giving a once unthinkable perspective to what’s going on below. These days, however, these views have become so common most ...

Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) can learn to associate food with the geomagnetic signatures of various oceanic regions, suggesting that they are able to find known foraging areas using an ...

Loggerhead turtles are able to sense Earth's magnetic field in two ways, but it wasn't clear which sense the animals use to detect the magnetic field when navigating using the magnetic map they are ...

The latest edition of the Earth's magnetic field map, which serves as a reference for ships and aircraft to determine direction, has been released. According to the new map, the magnetic North Pole ...

A man holds elvers, young glass eels, in Portland, Maine, in 2012. Researchers have found that European eels can sense magnetic fields and may use this ability to navigate thousands of miles through ...