Replication of prior studies fails to find purported evidence of magnetic sensing in fruit flies

A team of neurosensory researchers from the University of Oxford, Universität Oldenburg and the University of Exeter has replicated landmark studies reporting magnetic sensing in Drosophila fruit flies and failed to find any evidence for it. In their study, reported in the journal Nature, the group meticulously replicated work done by two prior teams with vastly different results. A News and Views piece in the same journal issue discusses the results produced by the team.