How Birds Navigate: Research Team Is First To Model Photochemical Compass
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 15:14
in Physics & Chemistry
Scientists from Arizona State University and the University of Oxford, whose work appears in the April 30 advanced online publication of the journal Nature, have synthesized and studied a sophisticated molecule that, under illumination, is sensitive to both the magnitude and the direction of magnetic fields as tiny as the Earth's, which is, on average, one-twenty thousandth as strong as a refrigerator magnet.