Modern steel ships warp a magnetic compass with both permanent and induced magnetism, and the binnacle is packed with clever countermeasures to cancel it out. This breaks down hard iron vs soft iron ...

Even without GPS you can stay oriented and drive confidently on unfamiliar highways and byways to get where you're going.

At some point during our primary school careers, most of us probably constructed a simple compass, often by floating a ...

Dec 18 (Reuters) - U.S. antitrust enforcers should consider blocking a bid by Compass (COMP.N), opens new tab, the nation's largest residential real estate broker, to acquire rival Anywhere Real ...

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 ...

A proposed $1.6 billion merger would unite the nation's two largest real estate behemoths, Compass and Anywhere, combining Compass's regional brokerages with Anywhere's nationally recognized brands, ...

Two of the nation’s biggest real estate services companies are combining in a deal that will bring Century 21, Compass and several other major brokerage brands under the same umbrella. New York-based ...

Sept 22 (Reuters) - Compass (COMP.N), opens new tab, the largest U.S. residential real estate broker, is set to buy Anywhere Real Estate (HOUS.N), opens new tab in a deal valued at $4.2 billion, as it ...