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Iron-packed liver cells in pigeons act like tiny magnetic compasses, a navigation system never seen before in any other animal
Homing pigeons rely on iron-loaded immune cells in their livers to sense Earth’s magnetic field, a biological compass system ...
The birds navigate using an internal magnetic compass in their livers. Immune cells in the liver, known as macrophages, are packed with iron and sensitive to the Earth’s magnetic fields. Those cells ...
Scientists in Germany have shown that liver macrophages – the white blood cells that destroy pathogens and help clear ...
A team from Germany and the Czech Republic found that dogs prefer to defecate with their bodies aligned along the Earth's ...
A quiet field can look completely ordinary until you notice the pattern. Many cows and deer seem to rest or graze with their bodies lined up roughly north-south. That odd detail first drew serious ...
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