This compass includes a sighting hole and notch so you can get accurate bearings, as well as a clinometer and a declination adjustment tool. The TruArc needle tilts up to 20° for balanced use anywhere ...

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 ...

In the days since GPS was invented, many of us have lost the skill of navigating by a good old compass and map. As a family ...

A team of physicists and engineers at the CU Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation of magnetic fields using what may be the tiniest compasses around—atoms. The group’s findings ...