This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Grand Canal barges have no fancy names, no mermaids planted on the bow, no corny sayings painted on the stern. Instead ...

The rubbish is treated as toxic and will be taken away by a barge for disposal when the canal is refilled in April. Anna Borzello The Hertford Union Canal was never a commercial success ...

Suspend any skepticism: Suspenders, once the domain of Steve Urkel and Larry King, have become fashionable. And social media has all the proof you need. Modern-day suspenders, or “braces” as ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. With a maximum speed of six kilometres an hour, it’s all about “slow travel” aboard European Waterways’ luxury canal barge ...

Forty five years after the U.S. first considered building a canal through Central America, the Panama Canal opened to the public. French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps completes work on the Suez ...

Efforts to free a container ship wedged diagonally across the Suez Canal have succeeded. The 400m (1300ft) Ever Given was stuck in the mud and sand right across the southern end of the canal since ...

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The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...