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

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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 ...

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While container ships are currently being built and retrofitted to allow electrical connectivity at port, this wouldn't be enough. The giant engines of these ships would have to be modified to permit ...

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 ...

Researchers at MIT have demonstrated that wedge-shaped vortex generators attached to a ship's hull can reduce drag by up to 7.5%, which reduces overall ship emissions and fuel expenses. The paper, ...

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If you like piña coladas and quantum mechanics, then we hope you are currently on the two-week “Bright Horizons 19” Southeast Asia cruise, as on board is physicist and writer Sean Carroll. He will be ...

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 -- ...

The USS Enterprise was an impossible dream rendered in fiber glass. Designed for Star Trek, it looked like a creation straight out of creator Gene Roddenberry’s imagination: Twin nacelles—those long, ...