The scientific research ship JOIDES Resolution on an expedition to the southwest Indian Ocean in 2015. Xinhua/Zhang Jiansong via Getty Images My favorite place in the world isn’t a fixed location.

While most of the United States spent the summer in the grips of intense heat waves, University of Delaware doctoral student Aruggoda Kapuge Isuri Umejya Kapuge was about as far away from the heat as ...

JOIDES Resolution, a scientific drilling ship, in the South China Sea, 2014. Drilling the seafloor is much more difficult than drilling on land and it requires enormous ships specifically dedicated ...