The torpedo, named after an electric shock-giving fish, was originally applied to explosive charges moored at sea (now called mines). The same name was also applied to explosive charges attached to the ends of spars projecting from the bows of small...

The torpedo, historically called a locomotive torpedo, is a self-propelled explosive projectile weapon, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater toward a target, and designed to detonate on contact or in proximity to a...

Senate Republicans torpedoed legislation Wednesday to force the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq, bowing to President Bush's adamant refusal to consider any change in war strategy before September.The 52-47 vote fell far short of the 60 needed to advance the legislation and marked...

The explosive-laden wreck of a World War II torpedo boat has risen from the Pacific Ocean off the Solomon Islands, pushed above the water by a powerful earthquake, an official said Friday.The boat was exposed when reefs rose 10 feet above sea level during a...

Painter Odile Crick, whose most famous drawing was a graceful sketch of the double-helix structure of DNA, has died.Crick died July 5 at her home in La Jolla, said her stepson, Michael Crick. She was 86 and had cancer.Crick's illustration of the double helix appeared...

More than 60 years after being torpedoed by the British navy, a Nazi submarine built to threaten allied ships continues to spread fear off the coast of Norway.The rusting wreckage of the U-864, sunk in a desperate mission to supply Japan with advanced weapons technology,...