A 500-year-old discovery of a compass has been linked back to Nicolaus Copernicus - a Polish astronomer who proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system in the 1500s. This model, also known ...

Carrying a compass in the backcountry is a little bit like having jumper cables in your car – they’re both pretty useless if you don’t know how to use them. My dad gave me his compass years ago, to ...

Even the best Eagle Scout prefers to navigate during the day. The Vikings, apparently, would have laughed at such a preference—according to new research, ...

The earth's magnetic field is of more than passing interest to science. The field is generated by a dynamo located in the outer core, thus measuring the dynamics of the magnetic field allows us to ...

Researchers discovered a 500-year-old compass in a hidden chamber in Frombork, Poland, possibly used by Copernicus, shedding light on his astronomical work.

That navigation starts with the star compass, a mental framework for the natural world based on the 32 houses of the sky, which allows a navigator to place the canoe in the world, Baybayan said.

Broken Compass Bluegrass brings their progressive folk music to the historic Nevada Theatre in Nevada City, California on Saturday, November 11 as part of Paul Emery’s Nevada City LIVE! concert series ...

Ancient stone circles act both as portals and reminders of a different time, writes Rosalind Jana, as an exhibition at the British Museum explores the mysteries of the deep past.

The founders of Compass, producer Garry West and musician Alison Brown, were mentored by Feldman when they started their label in 1996. Their friendship with the Red House guru apparently eased ...