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.

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 ...

"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 ...

"We're trying to create ecosystem solutions and not point solutions," says Longitude Health CEO Vishal Agrawal.

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.

Down in a basement room of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, history was quietly made one morning last week, witnessed by a dozen experts in horology – the esoteric science of measuring time. Bolted ...

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.

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 ...