What if Earth’s Magnetic Field disappeared? This video explores the potential consequences of such an event, including the ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising force that may help explain how binary star systems form so quickly. New supercomputer ...

Magnetic fields are a fundamental part of the universe. They govern how small particles – the building blocks of planets, ...

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Homing pigeons rely on iron-loaded immune cells in their livers to sense Earth’s magnetic field, a biological compass system ...

At least part of the answer appears to be hiding inside a seemingly random organ. Immune cells inside pigeon livers called ...

High-temperature superconductor magnets have the potential to lower the costs of operating particle accelerators and enable powerful new technologies like fusion reactors. But quenches -- the sudden, ...

Pigeons sense the Earth's magnetic pull via immune cells in their liver, a new study says. Andreas Teichmann, laif/Redux ...

The team examined several parts of pigeons' bodies, including the eyes, beak, brain, spleen, and liver.

The breakthrough has occurred at the Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials (RCPTM), which is located at Palacký University Olomouc. The basis of the breakthrough is with an ultra-thin ...