That meant no magnetic compasses or other modern instruments; they had to rely ... a planned 43,000- nautical-mile, four-year-long circumnavigation of the Pacific with its sister canoe, Hikianalia.

I do believe it was an object that was about four to six miles away from the fighter aircraft, not a distant jet at 30 nautical miles ... This collection of instruments is part of Harvard's ...

I reckon I lost about three miles’ distance today from snaking around, head permanently bowed to read the compass ... ninety-seven nautical miles away. (A nautical mile, which is used in ...

The Salty Dawg is housed in one of the first cabins built in Homer, way back in 1897. Over the years, it’s been a post office ...

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Rev. Mariann Budde leads the national prayer service attended by President Donald Trump at the Washington National Cathedral, Jan. 21 in Washington. (Evan Vucci/The Associated Press) ...

A team of physicists and engineers at the CU Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation of magnetic fields using what may be the tiniest compasses around—atoms. The group’s findings ...

Three months after its launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency's Europa Clipper has another 1.6 ...

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Physicists and engineers have developed a groundbreaking method to measure magnetic field orientation using atoms as tiny ...