DSC 401: Magnetoreception & Disorientation

Published: Nov. 20, 2021, 10:27 p.m.

b'Response to DSC: "Kobayashi Maru" \\n\\nIn the first episode of Discovery\'s fourth season, we meet the Alshain, who navigate by their planet\'s magnetic field, which is in the processes of reversing polarity. Do planetary magnetic fields actually flip? And do real-life organisms use magnetism to orient themselves?\\n\\nPaper about protist\\u2013magnetic bacteria symbiosis: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-019-0432-7\\n\\nPaper about human magnetoreception: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/90480/\\n\\nFollow Mike on Twitter: twitter.com/Miquai'