More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a ...

The Antikythera mechanism, a first-century BC Greek device recovered from a shipwreck, is an analog computer designed to track and predict celestial movements, including the phases and orbit of the ...

Suppose you could travel back in time to the third century BCE, and visit Alexandria, the capital city of the Greek kingdom of Egypt. Arguably it was the most enlightened, wealthy, and powerful of all ...

Fresh research about ripples in the fabric of spacetime suggests a nearly 2,000-year-old cosmic calculator followed the lunar calendar instead of the solar one. The hand-powered "Antikythera mechanism ...

The calculator, dubbed the Antikythera Mechanism, was discovered in 1901 at the site of a shipwreck off a Greek Island with the same name. The breakthrough in determining the mechanism's true purpose, ...

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, but researchers have finally unlocked an understanding of an ancient mechanical work that has been arrested for about 2,000 years. Discovered more than a ...

The Antikythera mechanism, often heralded as “the first computer,” has continued to baffle scientists since its discovery in a Greek shipwreck in 1901. This intricate 2,000-year-old device was ...

ATHENS, Greece — Imagine tossing a top-notch laptop into the sea, leaving scientists from a foreign culture to scratch their heads over its corroded remains centuries later. A Roman shipmaster ...

Longest IT job ever—but after a century of research, there's been a breakthrough in modeling the first known computer. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

A Greek shipwreck holds the remains of an intricate bronze machine that turns out to be the world's first computer. (This program is no longer available for streaming.) In 1900, a storm blew a ...

The world watched in astonishment last week as NASA delivered its one-ton Curiosity rover to the surface of Mars with astonishing precision, hitting a target area just 12 x 4 miles wide after eight ...