Zhengang Lu and Russell Epstein, from the University of Pennsylvania, led a study to explore how people maintain their sense of direction while navigating naturalistic, virtual reality cities. The ...

Magnetic rocks with iron oxide concentrations act as natural chroniclers of Earth's past continental movements. Using small samples of rocks, scientists can isolate magnetic grains that were frozen in ...

(a) Map of a virtual reality city with stars indicating target locations. The movement trajectory for one participant is plotted: green dots indicate their location at different timepoints, and red ...