Enlarge / Fragment of the Antikythera Mechanism, circa 205 BC, kept in the collection of the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Visual Arts/Heritage Images/Getty Image The inspiration for the title device in last year’s blockbuster, Indiana Jones and the Dial Destinywas a real archaeological artifact: the Antikythera Mechanism, a 2,200-year-old bronze mechanical computer. It has no … Read more
The International Space Station (ISS) is counting down its days, with retirement just a few years away hanging over the orbital lab. For more than 20 years, the space station served as a home for astronauts in low Earth orbit, but it will soon meet its demise as it plummets through the atmosphere, leaving behind … Read more
Editor’s Note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, Sign up for free here. CNN — The grasslands, glaciers and snow-capped peaks of the Tibetan Plateau are breathtaking, but the vast regions of Central Asia are also among the most inhospitable places on Earth. … Read more
Group of Dongju Zhang/Lanzhou University Excavations in the Baishiya Karst Cave reveal previously unknown details about the life of the Denisovan people on the Tibetan Plateau. Editor’s Note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, Sign up for free here. CNN — The grasslands, … Read more
Tether, Circle and other major stablecoin issuers will soon be on the phone in the European Union. With the new rules coming into effect on June 30, they will not only need the proper authorization to operate in the 27-nation trading bloc, but will also have to deal with the strict limits on transaction numbers … Read more
Recent studies have shown that a doubling of CO2 levels in the atmosphere could lead to a significantly greater increase in global temperatures than previously estimated. This finding comes from an analysis of sediments from the Pacific Ocean near California conducted by researchers at the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and the universities … Read more
Neil Winton is a Senior Contributor for Forbes, writing about the automotive industry in general and electric cars in particular. The opinions expressed are his own. He was previously European Auto Correspondent for Reuters, wrote the European Perspective column for the Detroit News and contributed to the Wall Street Journal. If you have just taken … Read more
Tuesday’s biggest shock The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom The reveal, of course, was that Princess Zelda will be the playable protagonist. The second biggest shock was that the game even exists and is coming out in three months. The third biggest shock took a little longer to register, but it’s potentially an even … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Reconstruction of the oldest sea-going reptile in the Southern Hemisphere. Nothosaurs swim along the ancient south polar coast of what is now New Zealand about 246 million years ago. Credit: Stavros Kundromichalis × close to Reconstruction of the oldest sea-going … Read more
Secret Mode has lifted the review embargo for Still Wakes the Deep, the narrative first-person horror game from The Chinese Room. Powered by Unreal Engine 5, it’s time to benchmark it and examine its performance on PC. For our benchmarks we used an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 32 GB DDR5 at 6000 MHz, AMD’s Radeon … Read more