Many "modern" inventions actually have precedents dating back more than 1000 years, to ancient Greek and Roman times.

Scientists have debated if reverse evolution is possible, but this western Galápagos Islands fruit is providing compelling ...

The history of clocks is a remarkable tale of human ingenuity and the pursuit of precision. Explore how ancient civilizations began measuring time and how this led to the creation of the first true ...

Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

After undergoing months of specialist restoration, it is now ready to return to its original place in the church tower.

Scientists have discovered that Aspergillus flavus, a fungus linked to ancient “mummy curses,” contains compounds effective against leukemia cells. Re ...

This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park. One of the most beloved monuments in the parks of New York City, this musical clock hovers above the ...

Timekeeping has always been one of humankind’s greatest fascinations. From observing the sun’s shadow to engineering atomic precision, the evolution of timekeeping devices spans centuries of ...

Fu and her colleagues attempted to retrieve ancient DNA from six samples taken from Dragon Man’s surviving tooth and the cranium’s petrous bone, a dense piece at the base of the skull that’s ...

A common approach for synchronizing the agents in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is two-way timing stamps exchange mechanism. In this letter, by analyzing the change of accumulated clock offset ...

Over the past decades, physicists have been trying to develop increasingly sophisticated and precise clocks to reliably measure the duration of physical processes that unfold over very short periods ...