Special techniques used to study ripples in the universe may have helped researchers solve an ancient mystery. According to a new paper in Horological Magazine. These techniques allowed the researchers to tell how many holes were in one of the broken rings of the Antikythera Mechanism, the ancient computer shown in Indiana Jones and the … Read more
Prehistoric people hunt a woolly mammoth. A growing body of research shows that this species—and at least 46 other megaherbivore species—were driven to extinction by humans. (CREDIT: Engraving by Ernest Grise, photographed by William Henry Jackson. Courtesy Getty Open Content Program) AARHUS, Denmark – Imagine a world where elephants roam Europe, giant ground sloths roam … Read more
Without dinosaurs to trample the trees, vine plants like grapes flourished READ MORE: Asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago By Xantha Leatham Deputy Science Editor for the Daily Mail Published: 10:09 a.m. EDT, July 1, 2024 | Updated: 10:14 a.m. EDT, July 1, 2024 Next time you open a bottle of wine, … Read more
New research into ripples in the fabric of space-time suggests that a nearly 2,000-year-old cosmic calculator followed the lunar calendar instead of the solar one. The hand-powered Antikythera Mechanism was recovered in pieces from a shipwreck in the Aegean Sea in 1901, sparking more than a century of research into how the device came to … Read more
CAMPBELL LAKE, Fla. — Emily Elliott was searching the water for something precious. Elliott, a University of Alabama scientist who studies ancient hurricanes, came to this Gulf Coast lake to sediment that could unlock the secrets of violent storms of the past—and offer a glimpse of future storms as Earth’s climate warms. Aboard a small … Read more