A new study sheds light on how the brain orients itself in changing environments and how things can go wrong with its internal compass.

By learning what parts of the brain are crucial for imagination to work, neuroscientists can look back over hundreds of millions of years of evolution to figure out when it first emerged.

To test two theories of sex differences in spatial skills, researchers put poison frogs in tiny pants and gave them a spa bath.

Traveling with friends can help migrating animals get where they're going, even when they go astray, researchers say.

A technique that allows autonomous cars to make relevant calculations more quickly showed it improves both traffic and safety in simulated situations.

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.

Every few centuries the sun blasts the Earth with a huge amount of high-energy particles. If it were to happen today, it would wreak havoc on technology.

Insects such as ants and beetles use ingenious processes in their brains to work out how far they’ve travelled and in what direction - we’ve now discovered how they remember their way home.

Migrating birds use both their view of the stars and their internal magnetic compasses to find their way over thousands of miles.