There were schools of thought in Ancient Greece that speculated about extraterrestrial life, in trying to answer questions ...

Discovered in a shipwreck near Antikythera in 1900, the Antikythera Mechanism is a complex geared device used to model ...

Blaise Agüera y Arcus argues that prediction is the fundamental principle behind intelligence and “may be the whole story”.

In the medieval period, when Arabic chroniclers recorded eclipses, they usually noted concurrent deaths of rulers. And in Europe, a solar eclipse in 1133 was so closely associated with the 1135 death ...

Encephalitis lethargica is an illness that attacks the brain, leaving the victims like living statues—speechless and motionless. This disease turned into a full-blown epidemic around the world in the ...

Alexander the Great and the first President of modern Greece Ioannes Kapodistrias employed the Hellenic civilization for the good of humanity ...

Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have identified a mechanism that protects the female brain from genetic diseases. Although one of the two X chromosomes is ...

The US will seek to reach consensus with allies on a pricing mechanism to help insulate rare earth mineral refiners and extractors during meetings with dozens of foreign ministers in Washington next ...

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 Antikythera Mechanism, built over 2,000 years ago with 30 bronze gears, shows ancient Greeks created the world’s first analog computer to predict eclipses and calendars. Rock the Country festival: ...

For more than a century, a corroded bronze machine from ancient Greece called the Antikythera Mechanism has stood as evidence that complex mechanical thinking arrived far earlier than expected. New ...