In naval terminology, distinguishing between ships and boats is not as simple as comparing size or displacement. While a general assumption is that larger vessels are ships and smaller ones are boats, ...

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Physicists discovered that the famous 'Star Trek' spaceship got a lot right about designing a ship to jump from galaxy to ...

A team of engineers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has successfully demonstrated a high-bandwidth, free space optical communications system between two moving ships. APL ...

For decades, the starship Enterprise has been shorthand for impossible speed, a sleek symbol of television fantasy rather ...

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atmosphere is nearing launch. NASA’s TIMED (Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere, Energetics and Dynamics) spacecraft was shipped today from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory ...

Geophysicists in the UK have used a mathematical model based on old ships' logbooks to show that the observed decline in the strength of the Earth's magnetic field may only be a recent phenomenon -- ...

New wave: ship’s crew could soon be able to predict ocean waves using a system that measures and analyses the motions of their ship. (Courtesy: Martini0814/ CC BY-SA 3.0) The safety and efficiency of ...

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