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  1. 🐦🧭 A team at the University of #Bonn found that #pigeons rely on iron-rich #macrophages in their livers to sense #Earth’s magnetic fields.

    When researchers deactivated these #cells, the #birds lost their way on overcast days – but navigated fine under sunny skies, confirming a backup magnetic system that kicks in when visual cues aren’t available.

    👉 arstechnica.com/science/2026/0

    #navigation #science #biology #liver #biodiversity #zoology #germany #animals #magneticfield #research

  2. A new study on the origin of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays using the Cosmicflows-inferred density field of the Local Universe as baseline source distribution

    by Teresa Bister and Glennys R. Farrar

    arxiv.org/abs/2312.02645

    #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #cosmicrays #uhecrs #galaxies #milkyway #galaxy #magneticfield #physics #space #science #research #arxiv