Magnetic compasses can be fooled by steel hulls and shifting magnetic poles, so ships turn to gyroscopes instead. This video breaks down how gyrocompasses use Earth’s rotation to find true north, and ...

Losing your phone can leave you in panic mode, especially when the battery dies. The good news is that both Apple and Android offer built-in tools that help you track a missing device even when it is ...

Homing pigeons can fly hundreds of miles and still land on the same rooftop. Scientists have long suspected that these birds carry an invisible compass, yet the physical sensor behind it has stayed ...

When the captain has no compass, the crew starts fighting over nautical charts and the rudder. So it is with the United States, which now has several foreign policies rather than one, as factions ...

Meet Emery, a 16-year-old travel agent. (Photo illustration: Nathalie Cruz/Yahoo News; photo: outsmarttravel via Instagram) As his website acknowledges, Emery is "not your average travel agent." For ...

Most people use Google Maps to take them where they want to go, but if you're limiting the times you open it to just directions, you're missing out on some of the app's most valuable features. Google ...

With the addition of fishing in Enshrouded's Wake of the Water update, there comes a need for Fishing Bait. But there are different types of bait, which can be either collected from the various biomes ...

Researchers have designed a smart drug that hunts down and breaks a little-known RNA that cancer cells depend on. The drug recognizes a unique fold in the RNA and triggers the cell to destroy it.

For the Broken Monument quest in Arc Raiders, Tian Wen boots you off to the Scrap Yard in Dam Battlegrounds to hunt down three items from the First Wave: a compass, a videotape, and old field rations.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sahar Hashmi, M.D., Ph.D., is a Boston-based, award-winning AI expert. AI has become both compass and crutch for millions of ...