Author of the award-nominated non-fiction book, "Stealing Sisi's Star," now a serial podcast for Blanchard House Productions. MSJ from The Medill School of Journalism.

Christie's auctioned off the 1976 Apple-1 computer. Credit: Justin sullivan/Getty Images Apple fans are used to shelling out a pretty penny for the latest gadget. But last week one well-off Apple ...

Recent reports have been circulating that the famous Antikythera Mechanism may have just been a toy for children rather than an advanced ancient computer. What is the basis for this remarkable claim, ...

People from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture shared no ancestry with ancient Middle Easterners. Plus, Mendel’s last pea-plant mysteries have finally been solved and an origami ...

Who stole your motorcycle? Who has bewitched the kids? Spiders and crabs are still used to decode the past and read the future, in Cameroon. A large number of different forms of divination are ...

The Antikythera mechanism, a mysterious ancient Greek device that is often called the world’s first computer, may not have functioned at all, according to a simulation of its workings.

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In 2019, the fragile manuscript was discovered in an unlikely place in a Cambridge library – tucked in as the binding for an old book. "The manuscript had survived the centuries after being ...

Ancient Greek and Roman warships were equipped with bronze rams to smash and sink enemy vessels – and a team of archaeologists has just recreated one. They plan to test the weapon on replica ...

Abstract: Creating an interactive electronic book (e-book) requires substantial time, skill, and effort. Our study reveals that authoring tools must eliminate users' need for textual programming. We ...