When was the first voyage of the Challenger? No, not the Space Shuttle — the original Challenger, a sea ship that sailed in 1872. The HMS Challenger traversed the world’s oceans for four years, drove ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The HMS Challenger began a four-year voyage 150 years ago to explore the deep sea and the creatures that lived in it. The scientists aboard the ship discovered thousands of new ...

This article was originally featured on MIT Press Reader. This article is excerpted from James Lawrence Powell’s book “Mysteries of the Deep“. When HMS Challenger set sail in 1872, some scientists ...

ON 21 DECEMBER 1872, the converted warship HMS Challenger embarked from Portsmouth, England, on the first ever global scientific survey of the seas. Researchers from the Royal Society of London ...

English literature PhD Potter debuts with an elegant and impressive history of the Roma people. She traces how governments have sought to eject, eradicate, and assimilate the Continue reading » A ...

Today we have advanced submersibles and ocean mapping technologies, yet the ocean remains a dark, mysterious place. For ...

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