A demonstration of an ancient device reveals how simple physics can create extremely fast spinning motion, showing that clever engineering existed long before modern machines.
Over a century ago, Flinders Petrie documented drill cores in granite showing deep spiral grooves that suggest an ...
The expansion of one of the Mediterranean’s strongest powers wasn’t only driven by conquest, but also infrastructure. By ...
The study, published January 13 in Physical Review Letters, replaces the metal or plastic cogs of conventional gears with controlled flows of liquid. In their experiments, ...
The “Trees, Time and Technology” show opening next week at the di Rosa center weaves together history, feminism, Judaica and ...
The Dujiangyan irrigation system in Southwest China's Sichuan Province Photo: VCG. The Dujiangyan irrigation system in ...
A new study reimagines the 3,000-year-old technology using fluids, avoiding the most annoying limitations of teeth-driven ...
A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...
Among the highlights is a batch of digitized books donated by the Harvard-Yenching Library to the National Library of China ...
Depending who you ask, AI-powered coding is either giving software developers an unprecedented productivity boost or churning ...
Global YouTube star IShowSpeed took his millions of followers on a virtual tour of ancient Egypt this week, visiting two of ...