Humans have long been obsessed with building big, and as the world strives to combat climate change, megastructures may hold the key to a more sustainable future.

Jeff Greason describes how to go from 2% of lightspeed using dynamic solar wind soaring and then using pellets propelled from the sun to go from 2-6% of lightspeed using existing near term technology.

It is not often you get a 25-knot offshore breeze along Australia's north Queensland coast. Normally the trade winds blow from the southeast, which means there can be up to a hundred miles of fetch to ...

Humans have been sailing various seas and oceans for thousands of years, and using boats for potentially even longer than that. But as a species we wouldn’t have made it very far if it was only ...

Since he started ShipShape Products in 2005, Jim Welinski has worked hard to make the Duluth boat canvas business a success. His business serves fellow boat owners and sail enthusiasts. But he wasn't ...

Jimmy Cornell reflects on a lifetime of inventive, cautious and sometimes unconventional solutions at sea. The post The Art ...

If there was ever a collective metaphor for life, learning how to sail incorporates pretty much every aspect. Harry Jones, president of the nonprofit Detroit Community Sailing Center, runs the ...