According to an increasingly popular theory, birds and other animals use a radical pair-based compass to "see" the Earth's magnetic field, allowing them to undertake great migrations and daring rescues without getting lost. It's still unproven, but researchers from the chemistry department at Oxford University just verified a key component: In a new study, they report that the timing of these subatomic interactions makes them a good candidate to explain avian navigation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ost-they-may-have-mastered-quantum-mechanics/ Paper: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/18/6/063007/meta
