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Reverse-Engineering a Quantum Compass

Posted May 03, 2010 9:01 AM

From Wired Top Stories:

If the weird rules of atomic physics do help birds find their way around the globe — as some scientists suspect — a new study has identified ways of finding out how. The study is among the first to propose a direct test of how quantum entanglement, an effect that inexorably links two electrons in a way that Einstein called "spooky," could change the behavior of whole animals.

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