What's more, this group believes the ancient art holds elegant solutions ... room-only audiences of paper folders and math and computer-science students. This past September, he organized the ...

Using computer ... evidence of an ancient technology is rare, says professor of Greek and Roman studies John Humphrey of the University of Calgary, who recently published a book on the subject.

Over 120 years ago, sponge divers off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera unearthed one of the most enigmatic ...

The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether it would have worked without jamming ...

Researchers have created a computational model of the Antikythera mechanism to test how it worked. It was prone to jamming ...

The team hopes that the discovery showing the ancient human connection to great bustards spurs more conservation efforts to keep this population from going extinct. Laura is Popular Science’s ...

Gnarled, wild and majestic: these two very different trees in California form part of Mitch Epstein’s quest to photograph ancient forests ... included in his new book American Nature, which ...

Curiosity rover was called Mars Science Laboratory for a reason ... of Gale Crater was about 5 kilometers tall, created by the ancient meteorite impact. The Curiosity mission started near the ...

Potential treatments need to be subject to the highest standards of safety and efficacy. Transplanting dopamine-releasing neurons into the brain is a promising regenerative therapy for Parkinson ...

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