On a black volcanic beach, Christopher Nolan peers into a wheeled contraption that looks like a portable airconditioner. The ...

The Saqqara Bird, an Egyptian artifact from around 200 B.C.E., sparked a debate about ancient Egyptians' knowledge of flight. Resembling a bird, the artifact's structure and style is in line with a ...

From microplastics clogging up our oceans to landfills leaching dangerous chemicals, plastic waste is a serious and growing ...

Preserved plant cells show that grasses were brought into Cloggs cave in Australia and burnt over many millennia, revealing ...

Any hopes the U.S. held for building an impregnable lead in the technology were dashed by the progress seen at a convention ...

A shipwreck off the Greek island Antikythera revealed in 1901 a bronze mechanism over 2,000 years old that tracked lunar and ...

Philosopher examines chatbot friendships, exploring whether machines can truly replicate human connection and emotional bonds ...

Before gunpowder, Ancient Greek engineers were already constructing devastating war machines, such as the Claw of Archimedes.

Artificial intelligence isn't just capable of translating between existing languages—it can also create entirely new ones.

For more than a century, one of history’s greatest technological mysteries sat hidden beneath the sea. When historians began ...

An ancient sample shows calcite threading through the material’s cracks and pores, with possible lessons for making modern ...

In Rapid City, South Dakota, Caterpillar's next generation of machines are being designed, refined and tested, but without being physically built at all The Black Hills Engineering Design Centre, ...