The neurons that help us know where we’re going have been discovered by researchers. Working with bats, which move in three dimensions, the team found that bats’ brains contain a sort of 3D compass, ...

is a freelance science journalist, podcast host, comics artist, and TV host. Picture yourself exiting a subway car. You step onto the platform and for a moment, you’re completely disoriented. It feels ...

Head direction cells in the bat hippocampus encode three-dimensional representations of space Israeli researchers have identified three-dimensional ‘compass’ cells in the bat brain, explaining how the ...

Pilots are trained to guard against vertigo: a sudden loss of the sense of vertical direction that renders them unable to tell up from down and sometimes even leads to crashes. Coming up out of a ...