If you're hiking or exploring the wilds and you lose or bust your compass you can make a rudimentary compass by floating a magnetized needle. Instead of looking for a pond or puddle to hold your ...

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

Introduction Have you ever wondered how a compass works? Traditional compasses (not the digital kind found in smart phones and other devices) are tools that take advantage of a natural feature of ...