The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...

Fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and even a few mammals rely on magnetoreception for navigation. But the exact mechanism ...

Just make sure you know how to use a compass and read a map. 2. Temper your ambition In winter, the days are shorter, rucksacks are heavier and the conditions underfoot can be exhausting. It's wise to ...

Smartphones have dozens of hidden sensors that power everyday features. From accelerometers and gyroscopes to proximity and ...

Monarch butterflies may hold the key to one of biology's biggest unsolved puzzles: how animals tap into Earth's magnetic ...

CoMaps is community-driven, open-source, transparent, and the developers aren't concerned with making a profit. The app is fairly new (just hitting Google Play Store and the Apple App Store around ...

One of the most underrated ways Google Maps makes commuting less stressful is that it reroutes in real time. For instance, it ...

I'm glad I found it because the feature has now become an integral part of my daily navigation routine. It also made me ...

Space telescopes are typically optimized either to study a small patch of the sky across many wavelengths of light or to ...

Launched in March, NASA's SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors.

Even most rocket scientists would rather avoid hard math when they don't have to do it. So when it comes to figuring out ...