Human eye protein senses Earth's magnetism

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Submitted by chrb on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @08:13PM

chrb writes "BBC News reports that a light-sensitive protein in the human eye has been shown to act as a "compass" in a magnetic field."

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Bird magnetic sense (Score:2)

by Kupfernigk (1190345) writes:

It is now also known that this is how birds sense the Earth's magnetic field for navigation - which is why they cannot orient themselves blindfolded; light is required to activate the magnetic sense.

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