Keeping these two simple items in your pack—and knowing ... One of the tricky parts of navigating with a compass is that magnetic north isn’t the same as true north. The angle between the ...

While it does rely on having a functioning phone, a modern smartphone’s built-in compass doesn’t require a signal to work. We would still recommend having a good simple compass in your pack as ...

Hynek Burda has a theory about why the paper he co-authored on the canine tendency to line up on a north-south axis when taking a poop has garnered so much attention (including in this column).

Wait a minute, and you will find the magnet's North Pole is pointing north! You've constructed a simple compass. The entire earth is surrounded by its own magnetic field. If a bar magnet is ...

But what happens when you take a compass beyond Earth — into orbit, to the Moon, to other planets, or even beyond our solar system? Would it still point north, or would it aimlessly ... tools have ...

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 ...

One idea is that when an animal changes direction, the proteins may swing around to point north, “just like a compass needle,” says Xie. Perhaps the proteins’ movement could trigger a ...

The compass, made of copper-alloy, was found by amateur archaeologists, who used a ground-penetrating radar to comb the grounds of the 14th century Frombork castle in the north of the country.

As picked up by the Portland Business Journal, the latest charge means that BBVA Compass has now taken a total writedown on the asset of $89.5 million. Simple CEO Josh Reich tells the Business ...

Bitcoin (BTC) mining hosting and brokerage services firm Compass Mining will work with Compute North on a 75 megawatt (MW) hosting partnership for its Granbury, Texas data center, the company said ...