Enlarge (credit: Corr et al. 2018) In 1545, freshly refitted to carry a greater number of heavy cannon, the warship Mary Rose sailed into battle against a French fleet north of the Isle of Wight. The debate over what happened next is still heated, but the most accepted version is that the added weight of […]
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What Are the Odds of Another “500-year-old” Flood?
The Gulf is warmer and the winds are changing. Which is why researchers expect more high-pressure anomalies like Hurricane Harvey. https://media.wired.com/photos/59a46589c3906375e3884612/master/pass/Harveyclimatesignal-FA.jpg Feed: All Latest
How a 500-year-old engineering innovation led to selfies
In 1433, artist Jan van Eyck invented an entirely new genre of painting while sitting quietly in his studio in Bruges. He did it with the help of a scientific breakthrough which allowed German engineers to create some of the world’s first high-quality mirrors. The new German mirrors were made by coating glass with an […]