In Barrow-upon-Humber, a tribute has been unveiled to John Harrison, 250 years after his death.

Have you ever heard of John Harrison? Harrison saw a problem and had a driving vision on how to correct it. In the late 1600s, more than 200 years after Columbus reached the New World, there were many ...

Following the Scilly naval disaster of 1707, which lost four British Navy ships and almost 2000 sailors at sea, Parliament decided sailors needed a better navigational tool. The British government ...

Although we rarely think about it now, the greatest scientific challenge of the 17th and 18th centuries was longitude -- determining one's east-west location -- and this conundrum was particularly ...

Down in a basement room of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, history was quietly made one morning last week, witnessed by a dozen experts in horology – the esoteric science of measuring time. Bolted ...

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Vishal Agrawal, MD, has been named CEO of Longitude Health, an innovation consortium formed by some of the largest nonprofit health systems in the U.S. Dr. Agrawal is a physician, scientist, ...