Dr. Gladys B. West, a pioneering mathematician whose little-recognized work in a Naval lab helped create GPS, died Jan. 17 at ...

ARE YOU TEAM Garmin or Team Apple Watch—it’s a question many fitness fiends have asked over the years. They want a smartwatch ...

We all know that bats are masters of the night, with their high-pitched calls and whisper-quiet wings, weaving through tangled trees and swooping in on insects in total darkness. But exactly how they ...

When you check the weather on your phone or use navigation to find a new restaurant, you probably don't think about the satellites humming overhead that make it all possible. Yet these orbiting ...

From a childhood and young adulthood in segregation, West excelled academically and eventually helped model the Earth’s shape ...

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

Gladys Mae West, the quiet mathematician behind the Global Positioning System that now guides everything from ride-hailing ...

iPhone users face this choice every time they need directions: Stick with the pre-installed Apple Maps, or switch to Google Maps. A decade ago, the answer felt obvious, but today, it's not as clear.

In September 2025, a Widerøe Airlines flight was trying to land in Vardø, Norway, which sits in the country’s far eastern arm, some 40 miles from the Russian coast. The cloud deck was low, and so was ...

The eastern Chinese city of Nanjing, home to nearly 10 million people and the capital of Jiangsu province, experienced a six-hour satellite navigation blackout on Wednesday. GPS and BeiDou-dependent ...

The rise of GPS vulnerability is putting more resilient, atom-based navigational tools on the map. In late September, a Spanish military plane carrying the country’s defense minister to a base in ...

Google is not unlawfully dominating the GPS navigation market, a federal appeals court held Thursday, saying the suing companies failed to plausibly allege antitrust law or anti-tying restriction ...