A new children’s book, titled Simple Machines Made Simple, wants to demystify mechanical engineering for kids as young as a year old. It recently beat its Kickstarter goal by 700%—raising more than ...

The famed “Band of Holes” known as Monte Sierpe in the Andes of Peru have puzzled scientists for a century. New research suggests the holes were the site of an ancient marketplace. The Inca rulers may ...

A road construction project in Scotland unearthed the remains of a pre-Roman hilltop fort. Excavations of the fort revealed an underground chamber that had been built with river rock. Just what this ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early communities harnessed predictable tides for irrigation, but when deltas ...

Also known as the “Seven Sisters,” the striking cluster has long been used as an important seasonal marker and appears high in the night sky around Halloween The Pleiades, also known as the “Seven ...

Mindmachines.com has introduced the third generation of its ROSHIwave IN-SIGHT Mind Machine, a brainwave technology device that helps users achieve deep meditative states through a process the company ...

Did you know there's a legend about an ancient flying machine in India called the Vimana? These fascinating machines are mentioned in old texts like the Vedas and Ramayana, where they’re described as ...

When you push or pull with a simple machine, you are applying a force and doing work. And, if you get more force out of a machine than you put into it, then that machine has a mechanical advantage.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History offers monthly $15 tours led by archaeologists, uncovering ...

The writers of antiquity thought very little of the people who lived on the fringes of their own empires and had even less regard for the societies that existed beyond them. When the Roman poet Ovid ...