In a new study published today in Science Advances, my colleagues and I have uncovered the earliest evidence of rice in the Pacific Islands—at an ancient cave site on Guam in the Mariana Islands of ...

Alina Basics - Founded with a mission to preserve and share Pacific Island culture, Alina Basics creates fashion that reflects the identity and history of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. Each ...

The ANITA experiment, built to detect neutrinos, has detected very strange radio waves coming from deep below the Antarctic ...

Long before satellites or sextants, Polynesian voyagers explored one of the largest bodies of water on Earth. They did this with no compass, no GPS. They only had a deep knowledge of the winds, the… ...

The navigator feels reflected waves and sails toward them. Pacific navigators who have spent their lives at sea appear quite confident in their reliance on reflected waves. I, by contrast, find them ...

Wet and shivering, I rose from the outrigger of a Polynesian voyaging canoe. We'd been at sea all afternoon and most of the night. I'd hoped to get a little rest, but rain, wind and an absence of flat ...

Once sailors near their target island, but before it is visible, they must determine its precise location. A common indicator is reflected waves: swells that hit the island and bounce back to sea.

Western interest in Pacific voyaging. Disney's two "Moana" movies have shined a recent spotlight on Polynesian voyaging.European admiration for Pacific mariners, however, dates back centuries. In ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Wet and shivering, I rose from the outrigger of a Polynesian voyaging canoe. We’d been at sea all afternoon and most of the night. I’d hoped to get a little rest, but rain ...