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Tour on solar-powered boat to beat climate change

Scanning the horizon on his solar-powered catamaran, Swiss electrical engineer Raphael Domjan counts down the hours to the completion of his record-breaking world tour.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (10) | comments 3

Unmanned vessel could soon be working for Navy

Technology that sent unmanned aircraft over Iraq and Afghanistan soon could be steering unstaffed naval boats for such dangerous tasks as minesweeping, submarine detection, intelligence gathering and approaching ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Cliffhanging corals avoid trawler damage

Bottom trawling fishing boats have devastated many cold water coral reefs along the margin of the North East Atlantic Ocean. Now, researchers have found large cold water coral colonies clinging to the vertical ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Archaeologists to raise ancient Egyptian ship

Egyptian and Japanese archaeologists on Thursday began to unearth an ancient boat belonging to King Khufu and buried near the Giza pyramids for more than 4,500 years.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Baby beetles inspire researchers to build 'mini boat' powered by surface tension (Video)

Inspired by the aquatic wriggling of beetle larvae, a University of Pittsburgh research team has designed a propulsion system that strips away paddles, sails, and motors and harnesses the energy within the water's surface. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Skipper unveils world's biggest solar-powered boat

A skipper hoping to become the first to sail round the world using solar power said his catamaran could carve a wake for pollution-free shipping as he unveiled the record-breaking yacht Thursday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 3

Fishing boat lands World's oldest underwater human bone

A fishing boat trawling for mussels off the Dutch coast has instead landed a 40,000 year-old human bone, German scientists said on Sunday after examining the find.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 2

Hybrid technology moves from road to water

Hybrid engines aren't just for cars anymore. Hybrid engine systems are slowly catching on with environmentally conscious sailors, replacing less-fuel efficient diesel motors on sailboats.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 11

Shark fin soup to blame for blue shark decline

Scientists say the market for shark fin soup is the likeliest reason for the sharp drop in blue shark numbers over the last 30 years.

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Tsunami debris floating across Pacific toward US

(AP) -- Refrigerators, TVs and other debris dragged into sea when a massive earthquake hit Japan last March, causing tsunamis as high as 130 feet to crash ashore, could show up in remote atolls north of Hawaii ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Manatee hearing good enough to sense approaching motorboats

Every year, manatees are injured in boat collisions. Why don't they just move when they hear a boat approach? A team of scientists led by Joe Gaspard from Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium, USA, have found that manatee ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Drought shrinks China's largest freshwater lake

China's largest freshwater lake has shrunk to its smallest size in years due to drought, state media and officials said Thursday, endangering the ecology in the area and fishermen's livelihoods.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Tsunami debris found 3,000 km from Japan coast

A Russian ship has found debris from the Japanese tsunami, including a fishing boat, floating adrift in the Pacific thousands of kilometres from the disaster zone, a Hawaiian research group said.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 16, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New super-bouyant material: Life preserver might float a horse

Here's a story that might float your boat: Researchers in China are reporting the development of miniature super-bouyant boats that float so well that an ordinary life preserver made from the same material might support a ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 5

World's biggest solar boat docks in Hong Kong

There is "huge potential" to use alternative energy in the shipping industry, the man behind the world's biggest solar boat said on Monday as it arrived in Hong Kong as part of a global voyage.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 6

Boat

A boat is a watercraft of any size designed to float or plane, to provide passage across water. Usually this water will be inland (lakes) or in protected coastal areas. However, boats such as the whaleboat were designed to be operated from a ship in an offshore environment. In naval terms, a boat is a vessel small enough to be carried aboard another vessel (a ship). Another less restrictive definition is a vessel that can be lifted out of the water. Strictly speaking and uniquely a submarine is a boat as defined by the Royal Navy. Some boats too large for the naval definition include the Great Lakes freighter, riverboat, narrowboat and ferryboat. The term armed boat, used primarily by English speaking naval forces, referred to any boat carrying either a cannon or armed occupants, such as marines.

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