In the ages before convenient global positioning satellites to query for one’s current location military aircraft required ...
Finding intact tallgrass prairie is like finding a dinosaur bone in your backyard, except the prairie is actually alive and ...
Researchers discovered a 500-year-old compass in a hidden chamber in Frombork, Poland, possibly used by Copernicus, shedding ...
Increasingly, military and commercial aircraft can't rely on GPS. The best alternative just might be quantum navigation.
A compass used by Lewis and Clark on their expedition to explore the American West is owned by the Smithsonian and is part of NPR's 250th anniversary series, America In Pursuit.