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31 January 2011

Written By: grantb on January 31, 2011 No Comment

Migrating robins have something better than magnets in their heads, Wired reports. They’ve got quantum sensors in their eyes:

European robins may maintain quantum entanglement in their eyes a full 20 microseconds longer than the best laboratory systems, say physicists investigating how birds may use quantum effects to “see” Earth’s magnetic field.

Quantum entanglement is a state where electrons are [...]

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