It’s no surprise then that he’s interested in the Antikythera Mechanism—a small geared device discovered off the coast of the Greece in 1900 that is believed to be the first analog ...

Metallic nodules found deep in the sea seem to be producing significant amounts of oxygen by some unknown mechanism, researchers revealed last year. Now, we may have found out how it is happening ...

The seven hands of the mechanism pertained to the five main planets which were seen from ... of the eclipse predictor as retained by the Antikythera mechanism, scientists came to the conclusions ...

And yet, they built. Granted, not every artifact was as complex as the Antikythera mechanism, but still, this ancient astronomical computer exists, and must have come from someone’s workshop.

Craig Duguid of Durham University, said, "This new mechanism has wide reaching implications for the survival of short period planets and particularly hot Jupiters. "It opens a new avenue of tidal ...

in the fourth century B.C. The Antikythera mechanism, used for registering and predicting the motion of the stars and planets, is dated to the first century B.C. It was discovered off the coast of ...