This video explores the technicalities of how Marine GPS units can calculate position wherever you are in the world. In this video, GPS means the system developed by the USA called NAVSTAR GPS. Other ...

CR tested GPS trackers from Bark, Garmin, and others and found differences in how they protect kids’ data. Here’s what to ...

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Many smartphone users assume that turning off GPS completely hides their location. However, Google can still estimate where ...

In a world of GPS and car-hailing apps, some Londoners still want to drive a traditional black cab. First, they must memorize thousands of city streets. In a world of GPS and car-hailing apps, some ...

The Trump administration announced plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

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 ...

Tracking the first astronauts’ visit to Mars won’t be as simple as watching a clock or marking days off of a calendar. Thanks to relativity, time actually moves faster on the Red Planet than it does ...

A modern fighter jet’s weapons systems officer is responsible for monitoring sensor data, operating weapons, and conducting ...

Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a new approach to applying thermodynamics to microscopic quantum systems. In 1798, the officer and physicist Benjamin Thompson (a.k.a. Count ...

In 2008, a team of UCLA-led scientists proposed a scheme to use a laser to excite the nucleus of thorium atoms to realize extremely accurate, portable clocks. Last year, they realized this ...

Forget Greenwich Mean Time or Eastern Daylight Time, scientists say we need a brand new time zone – for Mars. That's because clocks on the Red Planet will tick 477 microseconds faster than those on ...