These long acknowledged "facts" are anything but. We'd bet that you believed all of these lies—until today. Separating fact from fiction As children, we’re constantly told to listen to our parents.

Combining therapeutic and diagnostic capabilities in one dose using nanoparticles promises to push the biomedical field toward the next generation of personalized medicine. Magnetic graphitic ...

There’s a lot more action on the ‘handheld diagnostic equipment and abolish invasive testing’ front than I realized. (In my Feb. 15, 2011 posting I highlighted the UK’s Argento [physical device and ...

This article describes a method of navigation for an individual based on traditional inertial navigation system (INS) technology, but with very small and self-contained sensor systems. A conventional ...

They sense Earth’s magnetic field, which gives them a backup if the sky ... They’re able to use the stars as a compass to find a specific geographic direction to navigate, and this is a first for ...

A groundbreaking study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the Australian Bogong moth uses the stars and the Milky Way as a compass during its annual 1,000-kilometre journey to cool inland caves ...

Opinion: In this op-ed, retired Navy Capt. John Cordle shares why he chose to retire from his position as a federal worker ...

In this article, we present a hand-tracking system based on magnetic positioning. A single magnetic node is mounted on each fingertip and two magnetic nodes on the back side of the hand. A fixed array ...

Imagine traveling more than 600 miles from the only home you’ve ever known, to a mountain ridge you’ve never been to. It’s nighttime, completely dark, and you don’t have a map, GPS, compass, or ...

One theory is that they sometimes "cross-check" their direction with their magnetic compass, Dreyer said. Another question is exactly which stars the moths are using to navigate.