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 ...

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.

Although we rarely think about it now, the greatest scientific challenge of the 17th and 18th centuries was longitude -- determining one's east-west location -- and this conundrum was particularly ...

Have you ever heard of John Harrison? Harrison saw a problem and had a driving vision on how to correct it. In the late 1600s, more than 200 years after Columbus reached the New World, there were many ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. On Tuesday, Longitude Health announced the appointment of Vishal Agrawal, M.D., to the post of CEO. He succeeds Brett ...

IRVING, Texas, March 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Longitude Rx, the health system–owned specialty pharmacy services organization, today announced the appointment of Stacy Walton as its inaugural Chief ...

We're suckers for a bit of nostalgia – especially when it comes to music. And when one of our favourite Irish festivals is in the mix, we're extra-giddy at the idea of looking back and wallowing in ...

One of the most famous clocks ever built is running again this week - the first time it has done so in over a decade. H4, the marine chronometer that the 18th Century engineer John Harrison ...

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 ...