How we use the 'GPS' inside our brain to navigate Date: June 9, 2014 Source: Wellcome Trust Summary: The way we navigate from A to B is controlled by two brain regions which track the distance to ...

The way we navigate from A to B is controlled by two brain regions which track the distance to our destination, according to new research funded by the Wellcome Trust and published in Current Biology.

Elementary school pupils near Rochester, N.Y., are using global positioning systems to collect and plot data on the water quality of the streams that flow into Lake Ontario. Meanwhile, middle school ...

When the next generation of crews lands on the moon's surface — possibly as early as 2024 — NASA plans to use a lunar Global Positioning System (GPS) to help astronauts find their way. Such a system ...

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U.S. military-funded research on how birds migrate in the winter could one day allow troops to navigate using the Earth’s magnetic fields. The findings, announced last week, could result in a ...

Researchers from NASA’s Frontier Development Lab (FDL) and Intel are proposing a way to navigate on a new planet using artificial intelligence (AI). The researchers presented their planetary ...

The way we navigate from A to B is controlled by two brain regions which track the distance to our destination, according to new research funded by the Wellcome Trust and published in Current Biology.