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“I watched closely for the sun or stars to appear, to correct my chronometer, on the accuracy of which our lives and the success of the journey would depend.”

St Nick had a history of teleporting long before needing to reach all the world’s children in one night.

Contrary to common experience, not everything needs a medium to travel through. Overcoming that assumption removes the need for an aether.

Spying is not usually done these days with balloons because they’re an easy target and are not completely controllable.

The original principle of relativity, proposed by Galileo way back in the early 1600s, remains true in its unchanged form even today.

Many first-hand accounts from the golden age of piracy were grossly embellished, meaning it’s extremely difficult to separate Blackbeard the legend from Edward Thatch the person.

At the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society in Michigan, retrieving sunken vessels is the order of the day. Here’s how they do it. 

The East India Company issued stocks to minimize the risk on their unpredictable but highly lucrative voyages. The rest is history.

Ari Loeb, who suggested in 2018 that the mysterious object was an alien craft, is back to discuss the evidence.

Environmental activists want us to feel “flight shame” if we can take a train, instead. But this isn’t entirely realistic, even in Europe.

Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.

Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why they died.

A new bridge joins a divided Croatia, but it cuts Bosnia out of Europe — literally and figuratively. A bridge meant to unite also divides.

The Knights Templar were not only skilled fighters, but also clever bankers who played a crucial role in the development of Europe’s financial systems.

There have been some 6,000 Great Lakes shipwrecks, which have claimed an estimated 30,000 lives. These maps show some of them.

On long-haul flights, some airlines show shipwrecks on their in-flight maps. The aim is to entertain; the result is often to horrify.

Instead of fear, his delusions bring him cheer. His psychiatrist embraces them.

We have a morbid curiosity about nautical disaster stories. The Irish “Wreck Viewer” offers a window into centuries of marine misfortune.

Even if you or I will never actually visit these distant worlds, we now know they exist. They should fill us with wonder.

While many imagine terrifying futures run by AI, Rohit Krishnan is quietly identifying real problems and solutions.

Driven by a childhood marked by war and environmental devastation, Dyhia Belhabib developed an innovative technology to combat illegal fishing.

Recent claims put LK-99 as the first room temperature, ambient pressure superconductor ever. Has the game changed, or is it merely hype?

You don’t have to be an emperor to apply these rules to daily living.

“The Tao of the wise is to work without effort.”

Wealth concentration among elites was common in ancient nations, but the scale on which it took place in Egypt’s 18th Dynasty was unprecedented.

What’s to blame for the recent uptick in containership accidents?

Technology has advanced at a blinding pace in the past 150 years. That won’t always happen.

From surviving on wild plants and game to controlling our world with technology, humanity’s journey of progress is a story of expanding human agency.

A recently identified stage of sleep common to narcoleptics is a fertile source of creativity.

Using the Book of Mormon as a sacred but ambiguous atlas, the Latter-day Saints have been looking for the lost city of Zarahemla for decades.