This is the real story of the Antikythera Mechanism. The first underwater archaeological investigation, the oldest known analogue computer and the only scientific instrument that has survived from ...

Antikythera mechanism The 2,000-year-old Antikythera mechanism found in an ancient Greek shipwreck has been dubbed the “first computer,” using a wind-up dial system to track the celestial time ...

The Life Scientific Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work, finding out what inspires them and asking what their discoveries might do for us in the future ...

Newly uncovered remnants of an army barracks in Colonial Williamsburg offer new clues into the lives of America's first soldiers during the Revolutionary War.

Restoration efforts at the Church of Saint Philibert in France led to the discovery of a forgotten staircase and a 400-year-old burial vault.

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Drilling of Pad #1 down to 2700m has commenced at Arizona Lithium’s Prairie Production testing from the wells to commence in June Drilling ongoing across Pad’s #1-3 over the coming months The drilling ...

Kinetics tests and capacitance calculations clearly reveal a battery-capacitive dual-model Na-storage mechanism. Furthermore, ex situ XRD/SEM/TEM demonstrate superior stability during sodium insertion ...

The complexity of the Antikythera Mechanism, which has been dated to the 2nd century BC, astounded researchers. The instrument demonstrated a level of technical ability that was not thought to have ...