Launched to Mars in November, NASA’s ESCAPADE probes — operated by UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Lab — are now testing their ...
New research reveals how the invasive fall armyworm uses a combination of the Earth's magnetic field and visual cues to navigate during night-time migration.
New research reveals that migrating moths rely on both visual signals and Earth’s magnetic field to guide their nighttime ...
Nocturnal insects may use both Earth's magnetic field and visual cues to guide their migratory flight behaviors, according to recent findings. The research, published in eLife, presents compelling ...
To address this, the researchers used a flight simulator system that allowed individual moths to fly in any direction while attached to a tether ( Dreyer et al., 2021 ). The researchers were able to ...
The joint development team of Professor Shibata (the University of Tokyo), JEOL Ltd. and Monash University succeeded in directly observing an atomic magnetic field, the origin of magnets (magnetic ...
Earth’s magnetic field has long been framed as a planetary force field, a protective bubble that keeps the worst of the Sun’s radiation at bay. Increasingly, though, scientists are finding that this ...
Recently the MagQuest competition on improving the measuring of the Earth’s magnetic field announced that the contestants in the final phase have now moved on to launching their satellites within the ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the ...