Nearly 70 years after the launch of the first satellite, we still have more questions than answers about space. But a team of Berkeley researchers is on a mission to change this with a proposal to ...

Scientists are calling for the increased combination of CubeSats and solar sails to up our Solar System investigation. They believe that combining the tiny satellites with the relatively cheap and ...

Maxis are carrying carbon-fiber sails that outperform every other miracle fabric used before. By Kimball Livingston The first time a raceboat showed up with black sails, pushback was swift and severe.

Sailing boats date back more than 5,000 years, when the ancient Egyptians floated up and down the Nile in wooden vessels powered by wind and oars. But when steam and diesel engines arrived and ...

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James Mason works for Smart Green Shipping, a company which manufactures aluminium wingsails for cargo ships. He has received funding from the UK research council EPSRC. Alice Larkin has received ...