On this line, the true and magnetic headings are the same. For any given location on Earth, the angle between magnetic north and true north is called variation. It is read in degrees east or west.

Bogong moths use stars and Earth’s magnetic field to navigate epic migrations - revealing the first known stellar compass in ...

An Australian moth follows the stars during its yearly migration, using the night sky as a guiding compass, according to a ...

The magnetic north pole where the magnetic compass points is not in the same location as the geographic north pole—the magnetic north pole 1,300 miles away.

This Arduino library is a small embedded C99 implementation of the World Magnetic Model published by NOAA for calculating the magnetic field declination, or variation, at any point on the world's ...

Loggerhead turtles “dance” when exposed to food-associated magnetic fields, and their magnetic map may help them return to specific areas after long migrations.

Physics: a magnetic compass, a horseshoe magnet, globes showing magnetic variation and telegraphic apparatus (below). Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850, after himself. Emslie, John, 1813-1875.

The research was conducted by scientists from Bangor University in Wales, and focused on the migratory behavior of Eurasian reed warblers, which are small songbirds. The study presents an intriguing ...

But a pigeon’s own magnetic compass could not, by itself, bring him back to his roost. Like a ship, a pigeon needs some other instrument too.

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