Fritz Julius Lemp believed he was striking an armed merchant cruiser operating under disguise and followed all the clues that seemed to confirm it. Only after the torpedo hit and distress calls began ...

World War II exposed a fatal flaw in early American carriers: one well-placed torpedo could end the ship. The solution was a major redesign that added armored decks, better internal protection, and ...

For the past 99 years at Macy’s annual Thanksgiving Day Parade, spectators have craned their necks to watch giant balloons and larger-than-life floats pass through the streets of New York City. But a ...

How do you grow food on a small boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? It's a question Miriam Payne and Jess Rowe found themselves asking when preparing to row non-stop from South America to ...

A new floating droplet electricity generator is redefining how rain can be harvested as a clean power source by using water itself as both structural support and an electrode. This nature-integrated ...

A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world. Reading a person’s mind using a recording of their brain ...

Manhattan led the pack in office-to-apartment conversions nationwide last year — but a city in New York’s northern suburbs came in third. Adaptive reuse projects across the country are proceeding at a ...

NEW YORK -- The NFL appears to have saved the kickoff after being on life support for years. Now its attention turns to the onside kick, which has been terminal for years. In its presentation to NFL ...

If your new phone no longer supports SIM cards, or you don't want to use them anymore, you can convert to eSIM instead. I started my career with CNET all the way back in 2005, when the (original) ...