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The St. Lawrence is one of the most difficult rivers in the world to navigate. It has been the site of collisions, groundings and shipwrecks. Several thousand wrecks lie beneath its surface.
While many people rely on written signage to find their way around, oral language plays a significant role in giving directions in rural areas.
A mathematician explains how language can keep your online accounts safe and pinpoint your location on the planet.
Grid-like cities such as Buenos Aries can have a detrimental effect on navigation ability.
Accurately calculating a ship’s position by hand in 1915 was easy compared to what the New Zealand-born navigator Frank Worsley had to do next.
Migrating birds use both their view of the stars and their internal magnetic compasses to find their way over thousands of miles.
As you’re walking through city streets on your way to work, school or appointments, you probably feel like you’re taking the most efficient route. Thanks to evolution, you’re probably not.
On starlit nights, the Milky Way acts as these beetles’ primary reference. But light pollution gets in the way.
Although some parents may be reluctant to let their children explore their surroundings alone, allowing kids to wander can help build their sense of direction.
The English astronomer and navigator Thomas Harriot died in 1621, leaving behind 8,000 pages of notes containing a trove of unpublished scientific discoveries.
We now have a glimpse into where early Indigenous Australians likely travelled all those tens of thousands of years ago.
Some birds may effectively possess an in-built, global GPS system.
This important discovery demonstrates that cognitive maps are not the exclusive domain of humans and a few other species.
Recently, magnetic compasses at Greenwich pointed directly at true north for the first time in 360 years. This is currently happening in Western Australia too. But what does it mean?
Connected technology could help the visually impaired to recognise people, places or even bank notes.
At a time when storms are becoming more frequent and severe, relying on levees for flood control can create as many problems as it solves.
Red Dead Redemption 2 has been criticised for its portrayals of violence, but it could also be teaching players the lost art of reading a map.
Eight decades after missing aviator Amelia Earhart was declared dead, technologies still don’t quite track every airplane all over the globe.
Without their devices, regular GPS users take longer to negotiate a route, travel more slowly and make larger navigational errors.
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Research Fellow, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg
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Professor of Animal Behaviour, Bangor University
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
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Associate Professor, RMIT University
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Professor, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Historical Geography and Intellectual History, University of Bristol
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of Applied Biochemistry, University of Nottingham
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Affiliate, School of Mathematics, Monash University
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Research Associate, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL
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Professor of Linguistics, Bangor University
