But as a species we wouldn’t have made it very far if it was only possible to sail in the same direction the wind is blowing. There are a number of methods for sailing upwind, but generally only ...

Offshore wind, one of many energy sources that was going to help New York meet incredibly ambitious goals to decarbonize its ...

A pioneering rigid shipping mast has set off on its first journey, harnessing the wind to propel a cargo ship from England to ...

To explain why this is, Mould starts with a model of a boat that has its sail at 45 degrees and pushes it side on. At this angle, the model boat moves as far forward as the simulated wind does ...

It’s a machine that can move with the wind at a speed faster than the wind itself. A fundamental law of sailing boats is that when they are sailing with the wind, i.e. in the same direction as ...