IT helps solve mystery of ancient calculator
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A 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator, the Antikythera Mechanism -- with its intricate and baffling system of about 30 geared wheels -- has been an enigma.
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An ambitious international project to decipher 1,000-year-old moldy pages is yielding new clues about ancient Greece.
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Scientists reconstruct part of the genetic code of a 75-million-year-old mammal ancestor.
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Archaeologists have uncovered what may have been a village for workers or festival-goers near the mysterious stone circle Stonehenge in England
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While it may be less common than crime procedurals, particularly these days, you might still need a calculator to count all the TV shows (and movies) based
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Scientists, wringing their hands over the identity of the famed "hobbit" fossil, have found a new clue in the wrist.
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Archeologists found a small container with a whitish medicinal or cosmetic cream made up of animal fat, starch and tin oxide. Researchers writing in the November edition of the British magazine Nature say
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The mystery of how we read a sentence is unlocked by scientists.
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The fossil of a sea reptile with a neck twice as long as its body is solving the mystery of how some ancient reptiles used their long appendages.
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A stone slab found bears 3,000-year-old writing previously unknown to scholars, say archaeologists.
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The mystery of how a type of lizard "walks" on water may have been solved, a group of US scientists believe.
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The Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient device that's baffled scientists for a century, finally yields its secrets. In Gear Factor.
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Archaeologists working near Stonehenge in England have discovered what appears to be an ancient religious complex containing a treasure trove of artifacts that might finally illuminate the lives and religious ...Comment
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Children who had never been taught  addition or subtraction were able to solve approximate math  problems involving large numbers, researchers said on Wednesday  in a finding that reveals a new understanding of children&#39;s  innate math ability.
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An international team of astronomers has succeeded in solving the 100 year-old mystery about the origin of the cosmic rays by producing the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays.
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It's a historian's equivalent of stumbling across a long-lost sonata - a fingerprint on an ancient letter that experts say may have been left by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's father.
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An art restorer says he has solved a centuries-old mystery with the discovery of the studio of the 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer.