A century on from the Titanic tragedy, Richard Corfield says that the cascade of fateful events that led to her demise was partly caused by the science of the ship’s construction
That sinking feeling
One hundred years ago this month, the world reverberated to the news that the largest ship i
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Richard Corfield is a science writer based in West Oxfordshire, UK