Scientists have shown why fruit flies don’t get lost. Their brains contain cells that act like a compass, marking the direction of flight. It may seem like a small matter, but all animals — even ...

The navigation system used by rodents is similar to that used by Pacific Islanders in finding their way through the open ocean without a compass, a team of neuroscientists has found. The navigation ...

In 2018, Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky of Weizmann’s Brain Sciences Department embarked on a worldwide search for a natural setting that would allow him to study mammalian navigation in the wild. “I was ...