Robert Walter De Gille

Graduate Researcher, School of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne

Sciences & Technology

Looking inside a pigeon’s ear using quantum technology

Quantum microscopy is able to image tiny biological magnetic structures inside a pigeon’s ear and may help to explain how animals use magnetic fields to navigate

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