Participants in orienteering use their trusty compass and map to navigate an area to get to wooden posts called “controls.” Gina Padilla, program coordinator at the Kings Gap Environmental Education ...

Global positioning systems have revolutionized the way people get from point A to point B. Utilizing satellites and orbital data, GPS devices can ping these satellites and compute location anywhere on ...

A compass that relies on polarised light can use the sun to tell where magnetic north is, even when it is cloudy. It is based on how some insects navigate and could be used when conventional magnetic ...