If you search the outer reaches of the internet you will find all sorts of web sites and videos purporting to answer to free energy in the form of perpetual motion machines and other fantastical ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – I’m not sure what explains my interest in sailing. I didn’t grow up around the water. I root for Army over Navy. And on at least three occasions I have been seasick. Perhaps, it has ...

A new electric solar wind sail is almost ready for implementation. Electric sail propulsion might have a large impact on space research and space travel throughout the solar system. The electric solar ...

Cruise editor Tom Stieghorst is in Bali for a Star Clippers cruise near the Indonesian island. His fourth dispatch follows. A good part of the appeal of Star Clippers Cruises is that its ships are at ...

The electric solar wind sail is a propulsion system that uses the solar wind proton flow as a source of momentum for spacecraft thrust. The momentum of the solar wind is transferred to the spacecraft ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 6—It can be hard for military veterans to reintegrate into civilian life, says Carlos Poysky. He is one of the founders of ...

The Orient Express Corinthian, set to become the world’s largest sailing cruise ship, measures ...

I HELD ON TIGHT. My job was to hang onto the rope leading to the jib, holding just tight enough so the smaller sail could catch the wind. Seemed easy enough, until I started to lose sensation in my ...

Raceboats today are obviously much faster than the displacement boats of the past, and as a result, downwind sail trim requires two quite different approaches: You can either tension the vang and run ...