As Midwinter Day approaches in Antarctica – the longest and darkest day of the year – those spending the winter on the frozen continent will follow a tradition dating back more than a century to the ...

At the start of WW2, he'd joined the Naval Aviation School. After graduating, he served in the Pacific, airlifting casualties. After the war, he decided to volunteer for duty in Antarctica.

Retired from Sapulpa schools where he finished as assistant superintendent, 40-year educator John Cockrum, 89, was quartermaster on a Navy submarine, the USS Piranha, during WWII.

The Himalayan Mountains are home to the highest peak in Mount Everest at 29,029 feet, but also to the third largest deposit of ice and snow in the world, after Antarctica and the Arctic. Now the ...

This year marks the opening of the United Nations Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences, an international initiative focused on the rapid changes occurring in glaciers, snow cover, ice sheets ...

Session ID: 2025-06-25:55b0773bc4b1775e09c74b2 Player Element ID: player_5j4un6 Long-lost WWII sub located off WA coast ...

SAN DIEGO (Storyful/CBS Newspath/WKRC) - Researchers have discovered the USS F-1, a World War I-era submarine, which had been lost at sea for 108 years. The vessel was found off the coast of San ...

Dave Nicholas, Barry Porter, Rich Shipe and Harold Wenger turned 66 years old last winter, within a month of each other.

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This article was originally published with the title “Submarine Telegraphy during War” in SA Supplements Vol. 43 No. 1119supp (June 1897), p. 17880 doi:10.1038/scientificamerican06121897 ...