NEWPORT, Ore. – It’s widely understood that animals such as salmon, butterflies and birds have an innate magnetic sense, allowing them to use the Earth’s magnetic field for navigation to places such as feeding and breeding grounds. But scientists have struggled to determine exactly how the underlying sensory mechanism for magnetic perception actually works. In a paper
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