The Antikythera mechanism has long been treated as a one-off marvel, a relic so far ahead of its time that some doubted ...
Ancient Egyptians and Etruscans pioneered orthodontics, using delicate gold wires and catgut to straighten teeth.
African typographers are on a mission to preserve and revive ancient scripts, which are an important part of the continent's ...
An ancient Greek machine built 2,000 years ago shouldn’t exist, yet scientists are still uncovering how this mysterious ...
The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations ...
Historians and divers are trying to retrieve prehistoric clues from beneath the waves—but they have to act fast.
Microbiologists have long known that ancient, inactive viruses known as cryptic prophages can insert their genetic material into bacterial DNA. These genetic fragments allow bacteria to use ...
Sophisticated silk-weaving loom dating back to the Western Han dynasty used physical pattern cards which acted like ancient software.
Marc Olsen was just 18 when he started winning money at backgammon. Sitting at his computer in Copenhagen in 2004, he would ...
Silk-weaving loom dating to Western Han is world’s oldest known ‘computer hardware’ with corresponding ‘software’, China science body says.