The Antikythera Mechanism was a hand-cranked system of interlocking bronze gears designed to model the heavens. Turning the crank revealed the positions of the Sun, Moon, and the five planets visible ...

Some of the world’s most mysterious fossils, soft-bodied creatures preserved in coarse sandstone, owe their survival to an ...

Vaults are mysterious cellular structures that can be genetically engineered to store information about a cell’s history.

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.