It has long been known that birds, and even humans, use celestial cues to navigate vast distances. Now, tiny nocturnal Australian insects have been found to use stars as a guiding compass during their ...

An Australian moth that migrates over 1000 kilometres to seek respite from summer heat is the first known invertebrate to use the stars as a compass on long journeys. Every spring, billions of bogong ...

A Minecraft shortcut turns into a real-world problem when he tries to build a working lodestone compass from scratch. The bronze base has to be recast multiple times, the needle won’t balance, and ...