{"id":118168,"date":"2021-01-08T06:22:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T14:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/birds-have-a-mysterious-quantum-sense-for-the-first-time-scientists-saw-it-in-action"},"modified":"2021-01-08T06:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T14:22:36","slug":"birds-have-a-mysterious-quantum-sense-for-the-first-time-scientists-saw-it-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/birds-have-a-mysterious-quantum-sense-for-the-first-time-scientists-saw-it-in-action","title":{"rendered":"Birds Have a Mysterious \u2018Quantum Sense\u2019. For The First Time, Scientists Saw It in Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/birds-have-a-mysterious-quantum-sense-for-the-first-time-scientists-saw-it-in-action2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looks like living cells may have a lot more surprises to offer. \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Seeing our world through the eyes of a migratory bird would be a rather spooky experience. Something about their visual system allows them to \u2018see\u2019 our planet\u2019s magnetic field, a clever trick of quantum physics and biochemistry that helps them navigate vast distances.<\/p>\n<p>Now, for the first time ever, scientists from the University of Tokyo have directly observed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/birds-see-magnetic-fields-cryptochrome-cry4-photoreceptor-2018\">key reaction<\/a> hypothesised to be behind birds\u2019, and many other creatures\u2019, talents for sensing the direction of the planet\u2019s poles.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, this is evidence of quantum physics directly affecting a biochemical reaction in a cell \u2014 something we\u2019ve long hypothesised but haven\u2019t seen in action before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like living cells may have a lot more surprises to offer. \ud83d\ude03 Seeing our world through the eyes of a migratory bird would be a rather spooky experience. Something about their visual system allows them to \u2018see\u2019 our planet\u2019s magnetic field, a clever trick of quantum physics and biochemistry that helps them navigate vast [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118168","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}