Relying on digital mapping can erode your traditional navigation skills – could a refresher course be the answer? Alex Roddie ...

Scientists have unveiled a remarkable 'living GPS' in fruit bats, tracking their brain activity as they navigated freely.

The key to any great vacation, especially a road trip, is to have a game plan. We narrowed down the most important details on ...

Fruit bats navigate using a stable internal compass based on landmarks, offering new insight into how mammal brains map the ...

Hiking is an activity that is easy to get into and it opens up wild parts of the world to explore. We show you how to walk ...

Most Americans express confidence in their ability to do various practical tasks, but they are much less confident in their ability to do other tasks that require more specialized knowledge.

Michael Duggan is lecturer in digital culture and technology at Kings College London. He tells Srijana Mitra Das at TE about ...

Sharks don’t just rely on sight or smell—they use Earth’s magnetic field like a built-in compass to find their way across the ocean.

In 2018, Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky of Weizmann’s Brain Sciences Department embarked on a worldwide search for a natural setting that would allow him to study mammalian navigation in the wild. “I was ...

In "Mapmatics," a mathematician tells the stories of how math helps us track epidemics, map the seafloor, and plot a complex delivery route.

Some ancient marine organisms produced mysterious magnetic particles of unusually large size, which can now be found as ...