Talk:Magnetoreception

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A fact from Magnetoreception appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 April 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that magnetoreception in birds works by quantum effects in their eyes?

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

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

- 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)Reply

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