Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north. Their ...

A jaw-droppingly fast star that is one of the oldest in the galaxy has been spotted racing across our galaxy by astronomers—who were looking for something else entirely. The scientists noticed ...

Powered by The Copper Compass is a Five Star Sands of Eon Artifact found in Genshin Impact. An ancient bronze compass. Its needle points towards some ever-distant shore, to a non-existent harbor.

Now that we have a better idea of how these star dunes form, scientists can use that information to look for other evidence of ancient star dunes in Earth’s geological record. Josh Hawkins has ...