Migratory birds make mistakes in terms of direction, but not distance. Scientists assessed several thousand reports of Asian birds from the leaf-warbler and thrush families that had strayed to Europe.

Our ability to pilot a car or airplane—or even to walk through city streets—has been completely transformed by the invention of the Global Positioning System (GPS). How did we navigate, though, before ...

There's one thing all animals have in common: a sense of direction. And while other animals may navigate better than we humans, most humans navigate better than I do. Case in point: The time I visited ...

Difference between distance and displacement: Humans generally not aware of the difference between distance and displacement and thus use these terms interchangeably. But scientifically, these terms ...

In any direction! The distance between the Earth and the Sun is a careful balance between the mass of the Earth, the mass of the Sun, the speed with which the Earth orbits the Sun, and the strength of ...