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“Science helps us become better artists. It gives us more tools in our toolboxes,” says Kyle Welch, co-owner and winemaker at Longship Cellars in Richland, Washington.

At Longship, he and other winemakers might experiment with blends for a month and sample a wine multiple times before bottling.

With Unst's Viking heritage, we had always thought of the timespan from the longship to the spaceship.

Funding will also go toward the development of a virtual reality model of a Viking Age longship by undergraduate researchers at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa.

Pyramids, castles, palaces: symbols of power and status have taken many forms down the ages, and for the Vikings what really counted was the longship.