New research indicates that sea turtles seem to navigate across hundreds of miles of open ocean using Earth's magnetic field.

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Space exploration was a major theme of a state House hearing on Tuesday, even as the budget deadline looms over lawmakers.

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An emerging field of research that can measure how much climate change has worsened individual disasters is under attack by friends of the fossil fuel industry. Billions of dollars are at stake.

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The birds might use the organs' iron-rich immune cells as internal compasses on overcast days, when they must rely on Earth’s magnetic field, instead of the sun’s light cues, for navigation ...

The early four-legged animals, the tetrapods, were the forebears of today’s mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians.

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