Since the earliest ships were built, seafarers have tried to find more accurate ways to find their position in the water. In a coming book, “Ships, Clocks and Stars: The Quest for Longitude” (Harper ...

It might come as a surprise to such people to realise that at the zenith of Christian civilisation, in the high Middle Ages, no educated person doubted that the Earth was spherical. Dante’s whole ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. MARK COLVIN: This week's announcement from the US that marine archaeologists believe they've found the ...

Britain's supercarrier HMS Prince of Wales has become the first surface ship to be equipped with a state-of-the-art atomic clock as it departs for the Exercise Cold Response 2022 NATO joint exercises ...

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