A team of scientists at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research has discovered that inactivation of a stress pathway makes ER+ breast cancer cells ignore stress signals, allowing them to evade ...

I’ve been going down a gaming handheld rabbit hole for the last few years, spurred on by the Steam Deck back in 2022. While these PC handhelds definitely existed before that – usually with laptop ...

The Cycladic, the Minoan, and the Mycenaean cultures define the Bronze Age of Greece, 3,100-1,000 BCE. This was a period of flourishing architecture, craftmanship, agriculture, sanitation, including ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Today’s world runs on digital computers, but there was a time when ...

The Antikythera wreck, whose mysterious hand-powered model of the solar system changed historians’ understanding of ancient technology, has been visited for a final time—for now at least. In 2012, ...

Archaeologists and divers returned to the 2,000-year-old Antikythera wreck in Greece and found dozens of artifacts, photos show. Photo from Return to Antikythera Off the coast of a Greek island sits ...

Was the Antikythera Mechanism really used for time travel? Or was it actually the first Analogue Computer... In Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, they embark on a quest for the missing pieces of ...

According to research cited by Nature and Smithsonian Magazine, the Antikythera Mechanism is recognized as the earliest known analog computer, dating back to around 100 BCE. It used intricate gears to ...

A new study in Nature describes both the mechanism and the material conditions necessary for superfluorescence at high temperature. A new study in Nature describes both the mechanism and the material ...

Antikythera mechanism fragment A. Credit: Marsyas / CC BY 2.5 In a groundbreaking paper titled “Reconstructing the Antikythera Mechanism’s Central Front Dial Parts – Division and Placement of the ...