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 ...

A new tool developed by Helmholtz Munich and the German Center for Diabetes Research and the University of Bonn makes spatial proteomics and lipidomics easier to use—no coding required. C-COMPASS ...

There are actually two North Poles. One has been wandering over northern Canada and north of there for years. An earth ...

Human navigation turns out to be less like following a static map and more like tuning a control knob inside the brain. New ...

Imagine looking down at Earth from space, but in real-time! A live satellite map uses pictures taken from satellites that are orbiting our planet right now. It shows you what’s happening on the ground ...

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 ...

With new technologies comes new discoveries. Or so Spider Man's Uncle Ben might have said if he was an astronomer. Or a ...

"I think every astronomer is going to find something of value here, as NASA's missions enable the world to answer fundamental ...