Forest Ridge Park offers wilderness navigation classes to equip hikers with essential outdoor navigation skills.

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In some Pacific islands, sailors continue to cross the ocean without a map, compass, or GPS. Their guide: the ocean itself.

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Lenovo Watch GT Pro debuts with dual-frequency GPS, 27-day battery, 170+ sports modes, health tracking, and 5ATM water resistance.

When Santa is done delivering presents on Christmas Eve, he must get back home to the North Pole, even if it’s snowing so ...

The omnipresent system that people use for navigation and positioning is increasingly vulnerable. Can it be improved?

The magnetic compass is the last unknown sense in migrating animals. For some scientists, the monarch butterfly is leading ...

Getting lost during a hike sounds like a nightmare for most people. Not only can it totally ruin your trip, but depending on ...

Designed to inspect fresh-cut product straight from the field, this belt-fed system combines high-performance foreign ...

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...

When Santa is done delivering presents on Christmas Eve, he must get back home to the North Pole, even if it’s snowing so ...