Almanac: Captain Cook 01:36. On October 27, 1728, ... And, in a story fit for Halloween, the tribe then boiled his dismembered body parts and removed the bones. Just to be clear, ...

The controversial legacy of Captain James Cook 06:18. On the Big Island of Hawaii, where the waves roll into Kealakekua Bay, a white obelisk 27 feet tall looms over the shoreline.

Working with maps and logs from Cook’s voyage, along with other historical records and satellite imagery, University of Washington mathematician Harry Stern has tracked changes in ice cover in ...