Bonnaroo weekend is a highly anticipated experience in the festival circuit, but with its 3rd cancellation in five years, ...

There’s a weathered wooden shack in Key West where nautical flags flutter in the salty breeze, a painted tarpon hangs proudly above the entrance, and inside, a treasure trove awaits that would make ...

Researchers recreated a 30,000-year-old ocean journey from Taiwan to Japan using canoes and simulations to test early human ...

One of the most taken-for-granted pieces of equipment on a boat is the magnetic compass. The compass is the basic navigational instrument aboard a boat, especially when out of sight of land.

Bogong moths use both Earth's magnetic field and the starry night sky to make twice-yearly migrations spanning hundreds of ...

A species of Australian moth travels up to a thousand kilometers every summer using the stars to navigate, scientists said ...

Lodestones in Minecraft can make all the difference to your adventures in the survival game, as they massively help with ...

That’s why I’m grateful for the moral fortitude and spiritual stamina exhibited by New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker. For 25 hours, Sen. Booker stood on business, the business of the American people ...

Ritchie Navigation has been in business for 175 years and is still family-owned and operated, cranking out compasses sold around the world. “We had someone work here from 1939 to 2005, went to ...

Loggerhead turtles “dance” when exposed to food-associated magnetic fields, and their magnetic map may help them return to specific areas after long migrations.

A team of physicists and engineers at the CU Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation of magnetic fields using what may be the tiniest compasses around—atoms. The group’s findings ...