Turn the housing so north lines up with the direction of the travel arrow. Turn your body (not just the compass) so the magnetic needle is contained within the orienting arrow. Voil! You’re now facing ...

If shrunken down to micron size, a compass needle could wobble. (Courtesy: iStockphoto/tobias machhaus) A tiny magnetic needle just 10 μm long could be used to create a magnetic-field sensor that – if ...

Don’t head out into the great outdoors without a reliable compass to help navigate. Here are the best compasses on the market in 2022.

Once you get your hands on Pirate’s Compass, equip it. This compass is very easy to use. Follow the direction the red needle is pointing, and it will take you to an unopened luggage case.

Now when the compass needle is inside the orienting needle, the compass bearing that you read off your compass will be in relation to true north instead of magnetic north. If you have a fixed-ring ...

Below this is the round compass housing with a “360-degree dial” and “north sign,” within which is the floating “magnetic needle,” the “orienting arrow” beneath it, and ...

He and his colleagues claim to have found a protein in fruit flies that acts a compass needle. It’s composed of iron and sulfur atoms, and an outer layer of cryptochromes wraps around it.

What is magnetic north, and why does an old-school compass needle point to it? Because Earth is a giant magnet. Deep within our planet is a liquid core, a ball of molten iron and nickel.