Pigeon Magnet!

Who needs a compass? Get thee a pigeon! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Pigeons use the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate. So where do they keep the magnets?  Ask Clivia Lisowski and team at the University of Bonn.  They checked pigeons’ organs, for cells

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Martian Skies, Alien Lights

What’s turning the Red Planet green?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science saying… A Martian aurora! The first visible one, captured by NASA’s Perseverance! Elise Knutsen and team at the University of Colorado spotted this phenomenon after a solar storm. The charged solar particles zoomed toward

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