Earliest records show a spoon shaped compass made of lodestone or magnetite ore, referred to as a "South-pointer" dating back to sometime during the Han Dynasty (2nd century BCE to 2nd century CE).

If you suddenly and unexpectedly find yourself unable to rely on your navigational device or compass, there are a number of hacks you can use to help determine directions. For instance ...

Until the arrival of GPS, the magnetic compass was the single most useful navigational tool available to humans. But it’s a recent invention. Although Chinese explorers understood the principles of ...

It might be that our neural compass has been discovered even as ... into neurodegenerative diseases and even for improving navigational technologies in robotics and AI," says Griffiths.