In the days since GPS was invented, many of us have lost the skill of navigating by a good old compass and map. As a family ...

Trying to understand how a map relates to what’s on the ground can be tricky. It requires the brain to do a lot of stuff that it doesn’t customarily do daily. This is one of the reasons that ...

The magnetized needle of a conventional compass wants to align with Earth’s magnetic field—helpful, unless you’re near the poles, where the field tugs straight downward, rendering magnetic compasses ...

Dec 18 (Reuters) - U.S. antitrust enforcers should consider blocking a bid by Compass (COMP.N), opens new tab, the nation's largest residential real estate broker, to acquire rival Anywhere Real ...

Mike De Socio is a CNET contributor who writes about energy, personal finance, electric vehicles and climate change. He's also the author of the nonfiction book, "Morally Straight: How the Fight for ...

An expert on the inner workings of the Earth has revealed that the planet actually has two North Poles, and the movement of one of them could quietly disrupt global travel. Scott Brame of Clemson ...