22 Jun 2011

Human eye may act as a compass!

Covered by the BBC - this is amazing! Below is a small section of the text, but I urge you to click the below link and read the article, as it was intended.

 

.....The study in Nature Communications showed that without their natural "magnetoreception" protein, the flies did not respond to a magnetic field - but replacing the protein with the human version restored the ability.

Despite much controversy, no conclusive evidence exists that humans can sense the Earth's magnetic field, and the find may revive interest in the idea.....

 

 

For more information on this article, please visit the BBC website on the following link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13809144?utm_source=twitterfeed...