In the days since GPS was invented, many of us have lost the skill of navigating by a good old compass and map. As a family ...

If you think Newport or Marblehead or some other famous boating venue, you are…off course. The largest compass manufacturer in the United States, with a 90-percent market share, operates out of a ...

If you’ve never experienced it before, getting turned around on a cloudy day in the woods or getting lost during an event like a snowstorm can be extremely disorienting and stressful — not to ...

Explorers have long trusted compasses to navigate Earth’s land and oceans, using our planet’s global magnetic field as their guide. But what happens when you take a compass beyond Earth — into orbit, ...

Physicists and engineers have developed a groundbreaking method to measure magnetic field orientation using atoms as tiny compasses. This advancement could enhance applications in quantum sensing ...