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  • Birds Have Iron Balls In Cells That May Help Navigation, Study Finds

    There are still many pieces to fall in place before scientists complete the puzzle of how each year millions of birds make epic journeys guided by the Earth's magnetic field. But the latest development at Keays lab at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna has added some important pieces to this puzzle, but researchers are still far off from fully understanding how birds use the magnetic field.