A team of engineers and physicists at CU Boulder discovered a way to transform atoms into tiny compasses by using their natural behavior to measure the orientation of surrounding magnetic fields. The ...

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 ...

The human brain has 86 billion neurons connected by roughly 100 trillion synapses, making it one of the most complex objects in the known universe. Each year neuroscientists make fascinating, ...