{"id":3928082,"date":"2026-09-23T05:01:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T10:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/pigeons-proposed-inner-ear-compass-runs-into-a-noise-problem\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T05:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T10:01:31","slug":"pigeons-proposed-inner-ear-compass-runs-into-a-noise-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/pigeons-proposed-inner-ear-compass-runs-into-a-noise-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigeons&#8217; proposed inner-ear compass runs into a noise problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A pigeon turning its head might seem an unlikely electricity generator. Yet one proposed explanation for the bird&#8217;s magnetic sense depends on exactly that: Turning through Earth&#8217;s magnetic field would produce tiny electrical signals inside its ears. However, a theoretical study suggests that this miniature generator cannot supply directional information fast enough to work as a compass. The problem is electrical noise produced within the proposed sensor itself.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-09-pigeons-ear-compass-noise-problem.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pigeon turning its head might seem an unlikely electricity generator. Yet one proposed explanation for the bird&#8217;s magnetic sense depends on exactly that: Turning through Earth&#8217;s magnetic field would produce tiny electrical signals inside its ears. However, a theoretical study suggests that this miniature generator cannot supply directional information fast enough to work as [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}