A study in fruit flies reveals how the brain's compass and steering regions make course corrections. Our sense of direction is essential to our ability to navigate the world around us. It acts as the ...

Explorers have long trusted compasses to navigate Earth's land and oceans, using our planet's global magnetic field as their ...

A newly discovered neural circuit mediates between navigational brain cells, acting as a sort of mental steering wheel. When we walk down the street, we have an internal sense of which way we are ...

When we walk down the street, we have an internal sense of which way we are heading, from looking at street signals and physical landmarks, and also a sense of where we’d like to go. But how does the ...