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

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

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

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

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

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of magnetoreception, the ability of animals like birds and sea turtles to navigate ...

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

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.

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