Contrary to common experience, not everything needs a medium to travel through. Overcoming that assumption removes the need for an aether.
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The East India Company issued stocks to minimize the risk on their unpredictable but highly lucrative voyages. The rest is history.
There have been some 6,000 Great Lakes shipwrecks, which have claimed an estimated 30,000 lives. These maps show some of them.
We have a morbid curiosity about nautical disaster stories. The Irish “Wreck Viewer” offers a window into centuries of marine misfortune.
Environmental activists want us to feel “flight shame” if we can take a train, instead. But this isn’t entirely realistic, even in Europe.
Even if you or I will never actually visit these distant worlds, we now know they exist. They should fill us with wonder.
A new bridge joins a divided Croatia, but it cuts Bosnia out of Europe — literally and figuratively. A bridge meant to unite also divides.
What’s to blame for the recent uptick in containership accidents?
Passing chunks of ice can fertilize ocean waters and play a role in the planet’s carbon cycle.
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.
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why they died.
Technology has advanced at a blinding pace in the past 150 years. That won’t always happen.
It’s the early 20th century, and you are the captain of a ship. A barquentine specifically—three masts and a coal-burning steam engine in her belly. She’s a sturdy and capable […]
Instead of fear, his delusions bring him cheer. His psychiatrist embraces them.
While many imagine terrifying futures run by AI, Rohit Krishnan is quietly identifying real problems and solutions.
You don’t have to be an emperor to apply these rules to daily living.
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.
This might help you make it to the end of Herman Melville’s 19th century classic.
Wealth concentration among elites was common in ancient nations, but the scale on which it took place in Egypt’s 18th Dynasty was unprecedented.
Since 1957, the world’s space agencies have been polluting the space above us with countless pieces of junk, threatening our technological infrastructure and ability to venture deeper into space.
“The Tao of the wise is to work without effort.”
Recent claims put LK-99 as the first room temperature, ambient pressure superconductor ever. Has the game changed, or is it merely hype?
The quadratic formula isn’t just something that teachers use to torture algebra students. The Babylonians once used it to calculate taxes.
“What am I missing?” is a question that journalist Mónica Guzmán thinks more people should start asking.
A recently identified stage of sleep common to narcoleptics is a fertile source of creativity.
By the end of this decade, Seabed 2030 wants to produce accurate maps for the remaining 80 percent of the ocean floor.
Time isn’t the same for everyone, even on Earth. Flying around the world gave Einstein the ultimate test. No one is immune from relativity.
Even with six months’ notice, we can’t stop an incoming asteroid.
The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.
Circle spoofing is an advanced form of GPS manipulation – but nobody knows exactly how, or why.