Template:Did you know nominations/Magnetoreception

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 01:24, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Magnetoreception

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... that magnetoreception in birds works by quantum effects in their eyes? Source: "a bird’s compass relies on subtle, fundamentally quantum effects in short-lived molecular fragments, known as radical pairs, formed photochemically in its eyes." Peter J. Hore and Henrik Mouritsen, Scientific American, April 2022
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Curtis Island, New Zealand

Improved to Good Article status by Chiswick Chap (talk). Self-nominated at 15:35, 9 April 2022 (UTC).

- article is a new GA and is policy compliant. QPQ has been done; hook is interesting, supported in the article, and supported by the source. No images are involved in the nomination. Hog Farm _Talk 03:28, 11 April 2022 (UTC)