In this installment of Hot Science we present three questions that may help you to better understand buoyancy. The first is a kind of warm-up question, dealing with general buoyancy principles.

The ability of the creatures of the sea to float is usually taken for granted, but to keep from sinking they must either keep swimming or be equipped with special flotation devices ...

Read on to see the forces at work in keeping types of boats on the water instead underneath it. Displacement, Buoyancy, and the Archimedes Principle The first two principles that play a part in boats ...

September 13, 2024 • Sabin Howard's sculpture, A Soldier's Journey, features 38 human figures meant to tell the story of a single “doughboy," a nickname used for American World War I soldiers.

In South Carolina’s Lowcountry, artists, farmers and designers are writing a new chapter in indigo’s rich and tangled history. By Patricia Leigh Brown Axel Rüger, the head of the Royal ...