Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself ...

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Natural crystals fascinate with their vibrant colors, their nearly flawless appearance and their manifold symmetrical forms.

Australia’s iconic bogong moths are the first creatures other than humans and some birds known to navigate by the night sky.

A species of Australian moth travels up to a thousand kilometers every summer using the stars to navigate, scientists said ...

Bogong moths use both Earth's magnetic field and the starry night sky to make twice-yearly migrations spanning hundreds of ...

Australia’s iconic bogong moths are the first creatures other than humans and some birds known to navigate by the night sky.

The research team has identified atacamite as a material with magnetocaloric properties. Natural crystals have long ...

The magnetic compass always points toward “true north,” based on the Earth’s gravitational field. It’s a relatively unchanging constant that the ship can reliably steer by.

Native to Australia, tiny Bogong moths travel hundreds of miles in an astonishing annual migration by using the starry night sky to navigate, according to a new study.

Billions of birds travel distances incomprehensible to humans annually. Some, like the Arctic tern, log sufficient miles in ...