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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
US scientists have made cogs and gears that assemble themselves, experience little wear, and perform gyrations quite beyond conventional interlocking tooth systems. Instead of rotating on fixed ...
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