Scientists combined a mirror experiment simulating a different direction of the setting sun and a new test procedure to measure orientation behavior in bats to understand the role of the sun's ...

As Tufts prepares for another fall semester and upperclassmen look forward to familiar faces and favorite professors, a bigger and even more qualified freshman class hits the Hill. While the ...

While most folks can get by just fine by simply looking at a compass, Eric from Monkeys & Robots decided to see just how just how far he could push things and ultimately arrived at the Haptic Compass, ...

"It is basically a molecular compass for cell orientation, only instead of a magnetic field, it detects auxin concentration," explains Jakub Hajný. Thus, the team discovered molecular machinery ...

Whether it is bats, wildebeest or whales, millions of mammals move over thousands of kilometres each year. How they navigate during migration remains remarkably understudied compared to birds or sea ...