Tag: Navigation
I’ve captained ships into tight ports like Baltimore, and this is...
Allan Post, Texas A&M University
Details are still emerging about the disaster that happened in the early morning of...
‘Jaws’ portrayed sharks as monsters 50 years ago, but it also...
Gavin Naylor, University of Florida
Human fear of sharks has deep roots. Written works and art from the ancient...
The surprising reason why insects circle lights at night: They lose...
Samuel Fabian, Imperial College London; Jamie Theobald, Florida International University, and Yash Sondhi, University of Florida
It’s an observation...
Do you hear what I see? How blindness changes how you...
Ione Fine, University of Washington and Woon Ju Park, University of Washington
Almost nothing in the world is still....
Imagination makes us human – this unique ability to envision what...
Andrey Vyshedskiy, Boston University
You can easily picture yourself riding a bicycle across the sky even though that’s not...
Cellphone data shows that people navigate by keeping their destinations in...
Carlo Ratti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Think of your morning walk to work, school or your favorite coffee...
Kids set free to roam on their own feel more confident...
Vanessa Vieites, Rutgers University
The distance from home that kids are allowed to roam and play has shrunk significantly...
Amelia Earhart would have a hard time disappearing in 2019
Brian Strzempkowski, The Ohio State University and Shawn Pruchnicki, The Ohio State University
When Amelia Earhart took off in 1937 to fly around the world,...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
