Getting lost while driving is close to a a lost art. With GPS in your car's navigation system, in the portable navigation device on your dashboard, or in your smartphone, it's easy to pull up a map ...

GPS may be one of the most versatile and widely used inventions of our time. It helps us find our way home, decide where to eat lunch, track weather patterns, plan rescue operations, time stock market ...

Twenty thousand kilometres above you, there are a bunch of about 30 GPS satellites. They’re spread out, so that wherever you go, the sky above you contains at least four of them, and they pump out ...

GPS accuracy relies on Einstein's relativity theories to correct satellite timing errors that would otherwise cause 6+ mile ...

Perhaps you’re occasionally checking your smartphone’s built-in mapping software while driving to a remote trout stream, or using Google Earth on a home computer to scout out new hunting and fishing ...

Ever wonder how that GPS chip in your cell phone or personal navigation device or some other gizmo used by your field workers actually knows how to find the orbiting satellites and grab their ...