A study in fruit flies reveals how the brain's compass and steering regions make course corrections. Our sense of direction is essential to our ability to navigate the world around us. It acts as the ...

Humans and other complex animals have an internal compass made of brain cells that use internal and external information to generate a sense of direction. In fruit flies, scientists have figured out ...

A century ago, the strange behavior of atoms and elementary particles led physicists to formulate a new theory of nature. That theory, quantum mechanics, found immediate success, proving its worth ...