Ancient Greek inventions included remarkable automata and the Antikythera Mechanism, but many of their engineers' innovations ...

Researchers used the UK’s DiRAC High Performance Computing Facility to run EDGE simulations over several years. The DiRAC ...

The game mancala may have originated as far back as 6000 BCE in Jordan and is played around the world to this day. It consists of stones that players move between a series of small pits on a wooden ...

Studying the mysterious form of matter around ancient quasar galaxies could have profound implications for our understanding of how the cosmos evolved. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

The first vending machine was invented by an ancient Greek during the 1st century AD and was a holy water dispenser.

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Physicist Päs (The Perfect Wave) argues that “all is one” in this overly knotty survey of monism, or the belief that “in a quantum universe, there are no individual objects. All that exists is merged ...

The Chinese city of Xi’an has a deep, rich history. Remains from Lantian Man, belonging to the species Homo erectus, were discovered in the 20th century and dates to about 710,000 years ago, which is ...

When was the earth formed? What are the ancient milestones in man’s development? In recent years, scientists have tackled such mysteries by means of radioactive dating. By comparing the amount of ...