Dr. Gladys B. West, a pioneering mathematician whose little-recognized work in a Naval lab helped create GPS, died Jan. 17 at ...

West's work on modeling the Earth's shape assisted with the development of GPS, today used by an estimated 4 billion people.

A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped ...

As commercial interest in quantum technologies accelerates, entrepreneurial minds at the University of Waterloo are not ...

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Modern aircraft carriers rely on advanced navigation tech, but the U.S. Navy still trains for scenarios where GPS and radar ...

As a Navy mathematician in the 1950s and beyond, she played an unheralded but foundational role in making possible the global satellite-based mapping system.

Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...

GPS works by satellites broadcasting precise time signals, allowing receivers to calculate distance at the speed of light, ...

Gladys West, who has died aged 95, was the daughter of poor black farmers who in the 1950s and 1960s was instrumental in ...

GPS is more than just a way for us to get from point A to point B. Our smartphones, vehicles, drones, cameras, wearable devices, and countless ...

General practitioners in Victoria will soon be able to diagnose and treat ADHD in adults and children, in a move the state ...