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

Long before GPS, explorers used the stars to cross oceans and deserts. Here’s how they turned the night sky into a ...

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

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 ...

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

Many people are convinced they know how to survive in the woods, Bear Grylls style. But a lot of what we think we know only ...

My cofounders and I built Moment Factory by saying yes to projects most people thought were impossible. Long before the technology existed, we designed interactive concerts, illuminated night walks ...

If you’ve ever fumbled with your phone trying to change a route mid-journey, Google has some good news. The tech giant is ...

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

Some ancient marine organisms produced mysterious magnetic particles of unusually large size, which can now be found as fossils in marine sediments. An international team has succeeded in mapping the ...

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 ...