cosmos
Ancient Greece
Carl Sagan on the Brilliance of Ancient Greek Scientist Eratosthenes
Carl Sagan, the American astronomer, author, and science communicator was renowned for making difficult scientific concepts understandable to the millions; he did exactly this at the beginning of his renowned series Cosmos by explaining the thought process of the...
History
X Particle From Big Bang Detected For First Time
A mysterious particle called the X Particle, which existed just milliseconds after the Big Bang was just detected this week inside the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, in Switzerland.
The LHC is part of CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear...
Archaeology
Modern Technology Uncovers New Findings: Ancient Greek Analog Computer was a Textbook of Astronomy
Although the artifact was recovered back in 1901, new technological advances have helped archaeologists learn even more about an ancient Greek analog computer that is over 2,100 years old.
It turns out that after the latest examination, the Antikythera Mechanism,...