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The Antikythera mechanism is a 2,000-year-old Greek 'computer' scientists still can't fully explain
More than a century after sponge divers pulled a corroded lump of bronze from an ancient shipwreck, the object it contained ...
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A 2,100-year-old Greek machine could predict eclipses with bronze gears
In 1901, sponge divers working a Roman-era shipwreck off the tiny Greek island of Antikythera hauled up a corroded lump of ...
Gears are ubiquitous in the man-made world, found in items ranging from wristwatches to car engines, but it seems that nature invented them first. A species of plant-hopping insect, Issus coleoptratus ...
This planthopper can jump fast, far, and repeatedly. How does it manage to jump so well? Biologists decided to find out — and they realized that this insect has literal interlocking gears in its legs.
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