Reconstruction of how the Antikythera Mechanism could have originally looked like. Credit: Kgbo / Wikimedia Commons The study revealed that, with the observed manufacturing errors, the mechanism would ...

When we think of modern innovations, we often picture digital devices, advanced medicine, or sleek engineering. But what if many of the ideas we call “modern” were already in use thousands of years ...

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

The mysterious Antikythera Mechanism is 2,000 years old and has long puzzled scientists. New research into its ...

Researchers simulated the device's ancient gear system to find out whether the contraption actually worked. Apparently, it did not.

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NEW research into a mysterious 2,000-year-old relic may have finally revealed its true purpose – and it’s very different to ...

The world’s oldest analog computer may be no more than a 2,000-year-old lemon, according to the findings of an as-yet un-peer ...