Researchers recently showed that migratory reed warblers depend on an internal geomagnetic map to guide them on their long-distance journeys. But it wasn't clear how the birds were solving the ...

Birds have an impressive ability to navigate. They can fly long distances, to places that they may never have visited before, sometimes returning home after months away. Though there has been a lot of ...

Dmitry Kishkinev received funding from Leverhulme Trust and Russian Science Foundation. Every year, billions of songbirds migrate thousands of miles between Europe and Africa – and then repeat that ...

FAIRBANKS — It might be time for Alaskans to start turning the compass a bit less to account for planet Earth’s wandering magnetic poles. A five-year update to a magnetic model released Monday shows ...

Magnetic North is moving so quickly now, it prompted scientists to issue an unplanned, early update to the model we use to accurate navigate the world. In these modern times, anyone using technology ...

WE have heard a great deal lately about the native rulers of India, and the worst features of one of them have been brought very prominently before us; but it is a pleasing reflection that they are ...

THE U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey makes magnetic observations at a set of repeat stations every five years, and publishes the results at similar intervals, in the form of tables of secular variation, ...