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Have You Lost Your Sense of Direction? Then Use the Magnetic Compass in Your Brain

Posted by Guy Pirro 03/24/2019 06:23AM

Have You Lost Your Sense of Direction? Then Use the Magnetic Compass in Your Brain

Aristotle described the five basic human senses as vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. Now, it seems we can add another sense – magnetoreception. Many animals have magnetoreception, so why not humans? Honeybees, salmon, turtles, birds, whales, and bats use the geomagnetic field to help them navigate, and dogs can be trained to locate buried magnets. Apparently, many humans are also able to unconsciously detect changes in Earth-strength magnetic fields, according to scientists at Caltech and the University of Tokyo.


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