Jun 18, 2025 Updated Jun 19, 2025 1 of 2 Bogong moths use Earth's magnetic field like a compass Ajay Narendra Bogong moths are named after the Indigenous Australian word for brown Eric Warrant ...

The magnetic compass always points toward “true north,” based on the Earth’s gravitational field. It’s a relatively unchanging constant that the ship can reliably steer by.

NEWS 18 June 2025 These moths use the stars to navigate on an epic migration Bogong moths migrate hundreds of kilometres and back each year using the southern night sky as their compass.

Australian migratory moths use the night sky to maintain their course when they travel long distances to shelter in cool caves during the arid summer. Australian migratory moths use the night sky ...

The only remaining cue that could have been used was Earth's magnetic field, which showed very clearly that moths rely on two compasses—a magnetic compass and a stellar compass.

This article describes a method of navigation for an individual based on traditional inertial navigation system (INS) technology, but with very small and self-contained sensor systems. A conventional ...

Write-precompensation circuits are widely used in digital magnetic recording systems to counteract nonlinearities in the recording process. They act to shift transitions in the binary write signal in ...