Removing Earth's magnetic field leaves a clear fingerprint on E. coli's transcriptome, where 81 genes shift and track recent exposure rather than culture history.

The first magnetosensitive proteins found in archaea to our knowledge, showing that magneto-fluorescence occurs in nature and not only in engineered proteins.

An open-source instrument that images magnetic field effects across hundreds of live bacterial colonies at once, with hardware, software, and design files all freely available.

A theoretical model demonstrates that flavoproteins can be magnetically sensitive yet show no magnetic effect on its fluorescence, and whether you see the effect comes down to illumination conditions.

QBI's response to the NSF Tech Labs Request for Information

A physicist-friendly analytical primer on the simplest radical-pair model of biological magnetic sensing, with a new "bright and dark" way of understanding why zero field is special.

Taking away Earth's magnetic field stretches E. coli's lag phase by over two doubling times, revealing a finer magnetic sensitivity than previously shown in this organism.

Inside living bacterial cells, the protein MagLOV2's fluorescence rises then falls as magnetic fields strengthen, a non-monotonic signature of the radical-pair mechanism at work.

Despite decades of reports of weak magnetic field effects in biology across the tree of life and on a broad range of cell types, the evidence to date remains met with skepticism. To remedy this, we present open-data, large-scale, and varied morphological evidence that Xenopus laevis embryo development is accelerated in a well-engineered, environmentally-calibrated hypomagnetic field of less than 1 nT. These data imply that basal tadpole physiology can sense and react to the absence of Earth’s minute magnetic field of approximately 50 μT. The effect is significant, as demonstrated by a variety of statistical measures. As no definitive biophysical mechanism has been identified to account for its occurrence, this study raises the question of which mechanism provides the most plausible explanation. How that question is answered may have implications in a variety of fields, including human health, behavioral ecology, and space exploration.