When landing on the surface of the Moon, astronauts can become spatially disoriented, which is when they lose sense of their orientation – they might not be able to tell which way is up. This ...

Emmy Award-winning journalist Kris Van Cleave is the senior transportation correspondent for CBS News based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also serves as a national correspondent reporting for all CBS ...

Pilots are susceptible to various visual illusions and spatial disorientation, even in visual meteorological conditions, due to conflicting sensory input between vision, inner ear, and proprioception.

March 23 (UPI) --The National Transportation Safety Board determined that a pilot involved in a 2021 plane crash that killed seven people was probably disoriented at the time of the incident. The ...

The Federal Aviation Administration says pilot disorientation causes 5% to 10% of all general aviation accidents, and there could be new technology to help make flying safer. "Spatial disorientation ...

Vivekanand Pandey Vimal, GSAS PhD’17, is a research scientist at Brandeis’ Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Lab. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

Students perform a dance in the Spingold Theater while wearing homemade sensory augmentation devices as part of a project that explores how vibrational cues affect movement during dance. Vivekanand ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gwen Shamblin Lara and six others were killed in a 2021 plane crash, which likely occurred after her husband became disoriented in ...

CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — Nearly two years after a plane crash claimed the lives of two Cambria County men, federal officials say they have concluded their investigation into what caused the deadly ...