We're coming up on the six-month point following the solo deep-dive of Deepsea Challenger . James Cameron is immersed in movies again an...

Last month I was in Las Vegas attending the AUVSI unmanned-vehicle trade show to research an article. While there, I stayed at the Luxor Ho...

Last weekend we saw this estimable creature clinging to our mini-vineyard: It's a common green darner dragonfly, the Washington Sta...

As a writer in history and technology I try to group current events with some class of earlier, comparable mishaps. In this case the class i...

In this January 2011 post I described a North Pacific seamount discovered in 1950 by the research ship Cobb . In waters thought to be two m...

Part 1 and Part 2 : Rick Asplundh plans an easy test of the company's time machine at the request of the R&D Division chief, i...

I mentioned in this post, Unstoppable and the Story of CSX 8888 , that railroad companies don't permit engineers to leap from a moving t...