[https://youtu.be/KliWHCzE16c] (YouTube link)Imagine a GPS (or SatNav, if you're British) in 1971. There was such an idea, but since the satellite technology wasn't there yet, it came on pre-recorded cassette tapes that...

The ability to use GPS, or SatNav if you're British, is a modern convenience that boggles the mind for those of us who managed to travel without it for years. However, there's still value in learning to navigate the old-...

(Image: US Coast Guard)As a child, Nathaniel Bowdi...  ...s fantastic mind to work at the task of celestial navigation . He was so superbly skilled at determining the pr...  ...;s 1802 book became the seminal text on celestial navigation . US Naval Academy cadets still learn from an upda...  ...author:“Bow...

The Galileo Museum in Florence, Italy possesses this marvelous work of Sixteenth Century craftsmanship. It is an astronomical compendium, which is a collection of astronomical instruments. This example has three compartm...

How many hours of the day is a computer screen in front of you? Wait, let’s change that question: how many hours--or minutes--of the day is a computer screen not in front of you?Dhairya Dand and Henry Holtzman of t...

(Photo: zyphbear)Making a left turn on a 2-way st...  ...ke right turns.So, in 2004, the company created a navigational program that would map driving routes with just r...

During the late 1920s and early 1930s, the US Depa...  ...constructed on the ground along the way as visual navigational aids for the planes flying the mail route. There...

The story of Holly, the cat who came home from 200 miles away, is quite amazing. Scientists don't understand how she did it, although they have some ideas to explore."Any animal that comes back to the right place after a...

Ancient mariners aren't the only ones that used the stars to navigate. It turns out that the lowly dung beetle does as well when it rolls its ball of muck in a Moonless night:...

Where I live, directions to place you've never been usually comes with the caveat "You can't miss it." That phrase is a real downer, because when you hear it, you're doomed to become lost. Then when I find the place I'm...