{"id":103998,"date":"2020-03-19T16:28:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/some-people-can-detect-earths-magnetic-field-which-sounds-like-a-pretty-sweet-party-trick"},"modified":"2020-03-19T16:28:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:28:29","slug":"some-people-can-detect-earths-magnetic-field-which-sounds-like-a-pretty-sweet-party-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/some-people-can-detect-earths-magnetic-field-which-sounds-like-a-pretty-sweet-party-trick","title":{"rendered":"Some People Can Detect Earth\u2019s Magnetic Field, Which Sounds Like a Pretty Sweet Party Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/some-people-can-detect-earths-magnetic-field-which-sounds-like-a-pretty-sweet-party-trick2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could some humans be able to sense the Earth\u2019s magnetic field? Evidence suggests that in addition to quite a few animal species, humans could be\u2014yes, this is the real term\u2014magnetoreceptors. In a recent study, scientists conducted an experiment that measured how alpha waves interacted with a trace mineral that they believe registers magnetism.<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time, scientists thought animal magnetoreception was impossible, too. As they started to understand that birds and other animals used magnetoreception to navigate in the world, they still thought there was no way humans could do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could some humans be able to sense the Earth\u2019s magnetic field? Evidence suggests that in addition to quite a few animal species, humans could be\u2014yes, this is the real term\u2014magnetoreceptors. In a recent study, scientists conducted an experiment that measured how alpha waves interacted with a trace mineral that they believe registers magnetism. Once upon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}