Facing the Battle of the Atlantic and shortages of steel, British planners backed an extreme proposal to build an aircraft ...

Project Habakkuk was a wartime proposal to build an enormous aircraft carrier from “pykrete,” an ice-and-wood-pulp composite pitched as strong, slow to melt, and difficult to sink. The transcript ...

A groundbreaking new study has reshaped our understanding of the sinking of Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance in 1915. Using technical analysis and archival research, Jukka Tuhkuri determined that ...

Aircraft carriers are the U.S. Navy's largest and most technologically advanced weapons. Since aircraft carriers were first introduced, they've grown considerably, seen massive technology upgrades, ...

On Friday Cosmo Pyke is releasing his new Low EP on his own Pykrete Records. Inspired by the musical melting pot of Peckham where he was born and raised, the EP sees Cosmo blending elements of jazz, ...

Today, multi-disciplinary artist Cosmo Pyke has released the second cut and title-track from his upcoming new EP Low, out on 5th April via Pykrete Records. ‘Low’ sees Cosmo using everything at his ...

Navy civilian and master icy analyst Katherine Quinn was doing a weekly check-in on the icebergs she monitors when she saw it: a tooth-shaped hunk that had split off from iceberg A-74 in Antarctica’s ...

A drift trike is a small sturdy tricycle with a powered front wheel and rear wheels with low friction so that you can drift. They’re fun but there are tons of them. Nowadays, if you want to make your ...