It seems that fruitflies can detect magnetic fields, but only if they are illuminated with blue light. Mutant flies reveal that a light-responsive receptor underpins this peculiar behaviour.

The perception of the Earth’s magnetic field is used by many animal species for orientation and navigation. A magnetic sense is found in some insects, fish, reptiles, birds and mammals, whereas humans ...

The ability to see Earth's magnetic field, thought to be restricted to sea turtles and swallows and other long-distance animal navigators, may also reside in human eyes. Tests of cryptochrome 2, a key ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 116, No. 46 (November 12, 2019), pp. 23339-23344 (6 pages) Drosophila CRYPTOCHROME (dCRY) mediates ...

The magnetic sense of migratory birds such as European robins is thought to be based on a specific light-sensitive protein in the eye. Researchers demonstrate that the protein cryptochrome 4, found in ...

As anyone who has played with Geomag as a child, had an MRI scan, or watched that episode of Breaking Bad can attest, magnets are both very cool and potentially, very powerful. A new study conducted ...

As anyone who has played with Geomag as a child, had an MRI scan, or watched that episode of Breaking Bad can attest, magnets are both very cool and potentially, very powerful. A new study conducted ...