Birds Are Quantum Physicists

All Around Science

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

THEME MUSIC by Andrew Allen

https://twitter.com/KEYSwithSOUL http://andrewallenmusic.com

---

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.