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Pigeons navigate using magnetic sensors in livers — study

A research team in Germany has published new data on how pigeons use magnetic fields as a navigation method when visibility is limited. A key part of the long-sought answer could lie in an unexpected organ, their livers.

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Bird expert Sujan Chatterjee Explains why Sparrows Are Disappearing

Once common in Indian cities, house sparrows vanished as urbanisation erased their nesting spaces and food sources. In Hyderabad, a neighbourhood’s concerted effort installed 1,600+ nest boxes and engaged the community, bringing back nearly 20,000 sparrows and showing that wildli

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A humanoid robot is learning to pick tender tea leaves under the guidance of workers at a West Lake Longjing tea plantation in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province. With AI recognition models and algorithms, the robot is capable of identifying and locating leaves that meet

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Video analyses of scuba divers show that more than 80 percent of damaging physical contact with a reef is unintended or simply unnoticed, researchers report. https://t.co/upYyuqQcAL

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