A visual pathway links brain structures active during magnetic compass orientation in migratory birds. Every year millions of migratory birds fly towards their wintering quarters and come back in next ...

Scientists combined a mirror experiment simulating a different direction of the setting sun and a new test procedure to measure orientation behavior in bats to understand the role of the sun's ...

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While most folks can get by just fine by simply looking at a compass, Eric from Monkeys & Robots decided to see just how just how far he could push things and ultimately arrived at the Haptic Compass, ...

The Google Map App on Android phones will soon get a major upgrade which will allow it to render map images a lot faster, incorporate 3D buildings, offer offline caching, and use the compass to orient ...

You might wonder what mice perched on a circular stage inside a 360-degree virtual-reality dome might have to do with dementia, but studying the way the brain orients and adjusts based on visual ...

If you’ve ever used your phone’s built-in compass and felt something was off, you’re likely not imagining it. After testing several models, we encountered everything from pinpoint-accurate readings to ...

Cryptochromes, which fulfill the molecular requirements for sensing the magnetic reference direction, have recently been found in retinal neurons of migratory birds (Mouritsen et al., PNAS, 2004).