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The Antikythera mechanism was a working computer 2,000 years ahead of its time
In 1901, sponge divers salvaging a Roman-era shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera pulled 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 ...
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The Antikythera mechanism was a working computer built 2,000 years too early
When sponge divers hauled a corroded lump of bronze from an ancient shipwreck at the dawn of the twentieth century, no one ...
Mitsubishi Corporation has developed a set of three interlocking gears that can move around in different movement patterns while spinning at full tilt — which in some cases can reach an astounding ...
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.
a plant-hopping insect found in gardens across Europe - has hind-leg joints with curved cog-like strips of opposing 'teeth' that intermesh, rotating like mechanical gears to synchronise the animal's ...
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