When Santa is done delivering presents on Christmas Eve, he must get back home to the North Pole, even if it’s snowing so ...

When Santa is done delivering presents on Christmas Eve, he must get back home to the North Pole, even if it's snowing so hard that the reindeer can't see the way.

Scott Brame explains the difference between magnetic north and true north, as Santa and people all over the world prepare to travel.

The Earth's North Pole isn't just one place, it's actually two. Now, a researcher has revealed that one of those North Poles ...

Trying to understand how a map relates to what’s on the ground can be tricky. It requires the brain to do a lot of stuff that it doesn’t customarily do daily. This is one of the reasons that ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Scott Brame, Clemson University (THE CONVERSATION) When Santa is done delivering ...

From 25 starts for Logan Allen to some protection in the lineup for José Ramírez, these holiday gifts are sure to boost the ...

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...

THAT AUTUMN, A RESEARCH VESSEL called the Glomar Challenger sailed over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to drill holes and sample sediment. Fossils within the sediment samples they retrieved gave scientists a ...