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Pigeons may sense Earth's magnetic field using special cells in the inner ear. This discovery explains how they navigate long distances.

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Magnetic fields play an important—if sometimes underappreciated—part in planetary systems. Without a strong magnetic field, planets can end up as a barren wasteland like Mars, or they could indirectly ...