177 - Birds Are Quantum Physicists
Jan 22, 2024•48 min•Ep. 177
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Episode description
On today’s episode: Scientists tracked the 20 year journey of a mammoth that lived 14,000 years ago! How do migrating birds know where they’re going? Quantum mechanics! All that and more today on All Around Science...
RESOURCES
- New study tracks a mammoth’s travels across Alaska
- Magnetic sensitivity of cryptochrome 4 from a migratory songbird | Nature
- How quantum mechanics help birds find their way
- How Migrating Birds Use Quantum Effects to Navigate | Scientific American
- Magnetic field effects on plant growth, development, and evolution
- Cryptochrome-mediated light responses in plants - PMC
- Magnetic bones in human sinuses
- The magnetite-based receptors in the beak of birds and their role in avian navigation - PMC
- European Robin - Erithacus rubecula - Birds of the World
- Cryptochromes in mammals: a magnetoreception misconception? - PMC
- Electromagnetic noise leaves birds lost in migration, study reports
- Interaction of magnetite-based receptors in the beak with the visual system underlying 'fixed direction' responses in birds | Frontiers in Zoology
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