Since its discovery off the Greek island of Antikythera in 2001, the Antikythera mechanism was long thought to be a […] ...

Historians think the 2,000-year-old device was used to predict the positions of celestial bodies. A new digital simulation ...

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

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 ...

A pair of physicists at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, in Argentina, have created a computer simulation of the famed ...

A 2,000-year-old device from the Hellenistic Greek world defies modern understanding. Known as the Antikythera Mechanism, this technological wonder—unearthed from a Roman-era shipwreck—remains an ...

A partial skull found in Apidima Cave on Greece’s Mani Peninsula has upended our understanding of human migration. Dated to 210,000 years ago, this fossil—dubbed Apidima 1—is now the oldest known ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump said Sunday that “I’m not joking” about trying to serve a third term, the clearest indication he is considering ways to breach a ...

Their paper, published in Physical Review Letters, proposes a new mechanism that could underpin some of the unusual properties of the strange metal state of matter. "Our initial incentive was to ...

Researchers have uncovered a mechanism that could speed up the decline of several species April 2, 2025 March 29, 2025 by Futura Team, Nathalie Mayer and Marie Pireddu We already know that global ...

Behind the scenes and off the island, a historic replica of the lighthouse’s first-order Fresnel lens is being constructed by Dan Spinella of Artworks Florida, who is one of the only people in the ...

Colorado lawmakers on Friday sent three gun-control measures regulating the sale of ammunition and firearms to Gov. Jared Polis’ desk for passage into law. The bills now waiting to be signed ...