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By Aug 24, 2017
DIY

How to grill meat over an open fire

Like pirates used to do.
By Mar 10, 2016
Environment

Shipwrecks And Tree Rings Extend The Hurricane Record By 350 Years

Which could help us get better at predicting future storms
By Feb 12, 2016
Military

Pirates Of The Near Future Will Use Drones

Canadian military journal says it's only a matter of time
By Apr 23, 2015
Military

The High-Tech Battle Against Pirates

A stealth vessel and other technologies could protect ships in troubled waters--if only we'd deploy them
By Mar 19, 2015
Environment

Satellites Will Guard New Marine Reserve From Fish Pirates

Avast ye, scallywags
By Oct 29, 2013
Technology

Archaeologists Pull 5 Of Blackbeard’s Cannons From The Sea

A research team recovered the big guns from a 300-year-old pirate wreck off the coast of North Carolina.
By Jul 18, 2011
Technology

Climate Scientists Request Protection From Somali Pirates

First Australian climate scientists had to go into witness protection. Now they’re being threatened by pirates. Or their research is,...
By Jul 16, 2011
Technology

How to Reverse the Increasing Number of Pirate Attacks Near the Suez Canal

Every month, some 1,300 ships heading to or from the Suez Canal must pass through the lawless waters off the...
By Jan 11, 2011
Technology

New Shipboard Laser Weapon Takes Aim at Would-Be Pirates

A new long-range laser weapon takes a page from Greek antiquity to thwart marauding pirates at sea. It won’t set...
By Oct 23, 2010
Technology

File-Sharing Group Mulls a Floating Pirate Ship of Servers in the Sky

Pirate Parties International, the central group that unites all of the disparate political Pirate Parties in other countries, recently had...