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In the early 1900s massive airships ruled the sky, offering luxury commercial travel significantly faster than the steamships that ruled the waves. But a series of disasters, including the demise of Britain's R101 and culminating in the...

The video showcases the US Navy's humanitarian mission through their hospital ship, the USNS Comfort. The crew, consisting of military doctors, nurses, and health workers, provide medical relief and surgical care to local communities in...

This video showcases the USNS Comfort, a military hospital ship that has been deployed to Latin America on a humanitarian mission to provide advanced medical care to those in need. The focus of the video is on the treatment of cataracts,...

Industrial engineering focuses on improving processes. Industrial engineers analyze and optimize systems such as waiting in line at a theme park, boarding an airplane, helping people at a bank, answering calls at a...

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has found that a cruise ship dumped 27,000 liters of food waste and gray water into the Great Barrier Reef in August.

The natural world has many tricks to teach us about efficiency and design. Take the carnivorous pitcher plant: its super slippery surface acts like a slide for unsuspecting ants that can't stop themselves from sliding right...

The Bermuda Triangle is infamous for travellers being lost at sea. Here are the 10 greatest theories surrounding it.

In this video, viewers will learn about the history of hospital ships and how they have helped save lives throughout the ages.

This program examines the important figures of this period, their motivations for exploring new lands, and their tragedies and successes. This video looks at the first record of an explorer circumnavigating the world, this explorer was...

We’re taking you to a hotspot of family vacation fun and intrigue on this episode of Travel Thru History. Along the east coast of the United States there is a river that has struck terror in hearts of sea captains for centuries. It’s...

Whales, in general, are not capable of swallowing a human being and therefore will not eat you. However, there is a species of whales that does pose a legitimate challenge to that general theory: sperm whales. Whales are generally not...

Kara Walker's fountain addresses public monuments and the stories they tell us about history.

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Learn how to read 6/8 time for kids with this fun pirate rhythm adventure!

Almost all vaccines on the market require refrigeration to remain viable – including during transport. Continuous cooling is expensive and especially challenging in developing countries.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF), in cooperation with the Marinette Marine Corporation (MMC) and the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF), has successfully launched the R/V Sikuliaq, a "next-generation" global class...

How to find the speed and direction of a boat with current using vectors

Sri Lanka’s beautiful beaches are being swamped by billions of plastic pellets and toxins as the country deals with a massive and growing environmental disaster.

When Hawaiian Ranchers want to export cattle to the continental United States, sometimes they load their cows onto jet airlines and fly them across the ocean. By weight air travel is far more expensive than shipping on an ocean going...

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a huge area of ocean where hundreds of millions of tons of plastic garbage floats, brought there by a swirling ocean current. Much of the waste comes from single use items like plastic bags, straws, and...

Mars is a world similar in a lot of ways to our own. That doesn't mean there aren't a multitude of hurdles to overcome if we were ever to consider settling there.

In this video, viewers will learn about Peggy Shippen, the Philadelphia IT Girl who spied for the British during the American Revolution.