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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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

Ancient sea creatures may have used magnetic particles to navigate. 3D scans reveal how these magnetofossils sensed Earth’s ...