English clockmaker John Harrison revolutionized long distance seafaring in the 18th century, solving the problem of calculating longitude at sea and devising tools that helped sailors navigate with ...

AN INTRICATE recreation of “the clock that changed the world” has gone on display in Stratford.

"Aye, mate." One can almost hear the weary assent of countless a hoary sailor upon hearing these words of Horace, almost see the rheumy eye staring distantly as if at some ghost ship on the horizon ...

Following the Scilly naval disaster of 1707, which lost four British Navy ships and almost 2000 sailors at sea, Parliament decided sailors needed a better navigational tool. The British government ...

Vishal Agrawal, MD, has been named CEO of Longitude Health, an innovation consortium formed by some of the largest nonprofit health systems in the U.S. Dr. Agrawal is a physician, scientist, ...

On Tuesday, Longitude Health announced the appointment of Vishal Agrawal, M.D., to the post of CEO. He succeeds Brett Moraski, who filled in after the death of former CEO Paul Mango in January.

A £10m prize has been launched to solve one of the greatest scientific problems facing the world today. The competition idea is based on the 1714 Longitude Prize, which was won by John Harrison. His ...

The new leader of the collaborative says health systems need to shift from competing on size to joining forces on scalable capabilities that can be built once and deployed across organizations.