The sinking of the passenger liner Lusitania nearly a century ago has come back to haunt the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which has been accused by federal regulators of conducting an ...

Why did Germany torpedo the Lusitania, a civilian vessel? And why did such an enormous ship sink so fast? Now, take a high-tech plunge beneath the Irish Channel and relive on of the century's most ...

Lusitania: an ocean liner to rival Titanic. On May 7th 1915 11 miles off the Old Head of Kinsale she was struck by a single torpedo from a German U-boat. 18 minutes later she was gone: a death toll of ...

A century-old mystery beneath the waves remains unsolved as we enter this New Year. It involves the sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania during the First World War. Martha Teichner takes us back: ...

On May 7, 1915, the news media reported that the British ocean liner Lusitania had been torpedoed by a World War I German U-boat off the coast of Ireland. More than 1,100 people died. Here is a story ...

It’s hard to remember your manners when you think you’re about to die. The human species may have developed an elaborate social and behavioral code, but we drop it fast when we’re scared enough — as ...

Passengers and crew: 1,949 Sunk: May 7, 1915, torpedoed by a German U-boat Time to sink: 18 minutes Deaths: 1,198 Survival rate: 38.5% The tragic voyages of the RMS Titanic and RMS Lusitania have ...

The time people have during survival situations might affect whether they behave selfishly or socially. Examining two shipwrecks, the Titanic and the Lusitania, researchers recently found the longer ...

On this day in 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner, off the coast of Ireland. Of the 1,959 people on board, 1,195 perished at sea. The 32,000-ton liner, ...

On the 100 th anniversary of its sinking, Lusitania remains the most well-known passenger ship to be lost during World War I. However, it was not the first liner to be sunk when it was torpedoed on ...