New project aims to reveal nature’s quantum compass

Published on November 18, 2025

The University of Oxford is to lead a new, ambitious project backed by a major £6 million grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). This aims to better understand how animals sense Earth’s magnetic field and apply this knowledge to engineer novel tools with potential biomedical uses.
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