BYU students and a group of Girl Scouts make their way through a corn maze at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi on Sept. 25, 2012. Why do some people have some sense of direction? Experts say you can improve ...

As I mentioned in the last post, I used to have a pathetic sense of direction. I couldn't find my way out of the proverbial paper bag. If I was driving and approached an intersection from an ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Scientists studying rats have found both male and female newborns have an innate sense of direction before they've even begun to move around, and this is likely to be the same ...

As I mentioned in the last post, I used to have a pathetic sense of direction. I couldn't find my way out of the proverbial paper bag. If I was driving and approached an intersection from an ...

Navigating a busy street, a new city, or even your own home requires more than just memory of landmarks. Deep inside your brain, specialized networks act like a compass, constantly recalibrating so ...

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It’s never easy to orientate oneself in a new place – that applies to rats as well. Researchers have examined how the brains of rats cope with the challenge. They wanted to find out whether rats rely ...

IN Mr. Darwin's article in NATURE for last week there is a passage about “the sense of direction being sometimes suddenly disarranged,” that brought to my mind assertions I had frequently heard made ...