Imagine crossing vast oceans, soaring across continents, or tunneling deep beneath the earth—without ever getting lost. For ...

During the Age of Exploration, explorers relied on compasses to navigate the oceans and conquer the wilds, but they were ...

As Ron Merrill, a magnetic-field specialist at the University of ... So hang on to your compass. For the foreseeable future, it should work as advertised.—Peter Tyson ...

A magnetic field is invisible, but it can be detected using a magnetic compass. A compass contains a small bar magnet on a pivot so that it can rotate. The compass needle points in the direction ...

Until the arrival of GPS, the magnetic compass was the single most useful navigational tool ... and birds—are able to orient themselves relative to the Earth’s magnetic field. Among mammals, naked ...

Would a dramatic change in the Earth's magnetic field affect creatures that rely ... So they can sense it, but can they use it like we do a compass, to orient themselves? In another experiment ...

magnetic field, location, and address, plus the “course scale” feature to mark your preferred route and determine your return journey. Compass and Altimeter by PixelProse SARL is another very ...

Magnetic fields are fundamental to controlling the magnetization of materials. Under static or slowly varying conditions, a material's magnetization aligns with the external field like a compass ...

This "nano-compass" allows the microbe to passively orient itself in Earth's geomagnetic field (Figure 2). These magnetic nanoparticles are synthesized by a specific set of proteins that are ...