Researchers call the Antikythera Mechanism a 'computer' that 'breaks' the chronology of history, citing newly decoded functions uncovered long after its shipwreck.

A corroded early computer discovered in a shipwreck is challenging modern timelines of computing. New research now clarifies ...

Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human ...

Those who are looking closely might notice that Rome’s Colosseum has a new look on its exterior walls. A sweeping restoration project has recreated parts of the columns that once towered up to 165 ...

Last month, Paul Iversen, associate professor and chair of the Department of Classics at Case Western Reserve University, gave a general talk about the Antikythera mechanism, a 2,100-year-old ancient ...

Produced by Ryan Murphy, the show is a dramatized account of the relationship between Kennedy and Bessette, who married in 1996, and died in a 1999 plane crash, with Kennedy in the pilot seat. The son ...

If you’re running out of places to put your Lego Speed Champions cars, how about a brick-based recreation of the Top Gear studio? Dutch brick slinger Nard Verbong recently completed this bombshell of ...

Anyone who engages in serious dialogue with a Large Language Model (LLM) may get the impression they are interacting with an intelligence. But many experts in the field argue the impression is just ...

In a world where technology evolves at lightning speed, there’s a certain allure in the ancient innovations that continue to baffle modern scientists. These lost technologies not only demonstrate the ...

Hidden for two millennia beneath the Mediterranean Sea, a corroded bronze device recovered from a Greek shipwreck has forced historians to rewrite the story of ancient technology. The Antikythera ...

The introduction of toothed gears in antiquity unlocked a whole world of technology, but a new study suggests that there’s room for improvement on this 3,000-year-old innovation. Using a ...