The sixth Sense

Perhaps the scientific community has finally found evidence that humans truly possess the sixth sense.

Many organisms rely on the Earth's magnetic field to migrate, and the scientific community always wonders whether humans also possess the same ability. What led the way for the Polynesians traveling on the sea during the journey of up to 5000km in the moonless night, if not the intuition-oriented ability? After years of failing to find evidence for the so-called " sixth sense " of humans, scientists can for the first time prove their hypothesis, thanks to team research. The team of experts at the University of Massachusetts (USA) performed, according to The New York Times newspaper .

Team leader Steven MReppert, a neurologist, studied the role of cryptochrome, light-sensitive protein , in helping the monarch move. However, this butterfly can still fly in the right direction even without the sun, so they must have a support system. Since chemists had suspected that cryptochrome could " feel " from the school, Dr. Reppert hypothesized that cryptochrome was used by the monarch to navigate in the dark. And surprisingly, one of the two cryptochrome genes of the butterfly species is similar in structure to the cryptochrome gene in humans.

After experimenting on fruit flies, Reppert's team discovered cryptochrome, taken from the human retina, that could help fruit flies possess the ability to detect magnetic fields, or rather, the protein has a functional as a magnetic sensor. However, it is still unclear whether people use this " sense " in reality, and how to take advantage of that special ability? According to Reppert, the next goal is how to decode how cryptochrome senses magnetic fields, and how it conveys this information in the case of fruit flies and monarch butterflies. Since then, he hopes to draw conclusions about the human case.