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A bacterium's built-in compass, explained: Single-cell magnetometry confirms Earth-field alignment
- February 17, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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Some bacterial species possess an astonishing ability: They use Earth's magnetic field to orient themselves. To better understand this mechanism, the team led by Argovia-Professor Martino Poggio from the Swiss Nanoscience Institute and the Department of Physics at the University of Basel took a closer look at the "magnetotactic" bacterium Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense.
Originally published at Phys.org