One ring—the calendar ring—of the Antikythera mechanism contains minute holes ... It wasn’t until 2020 that new X-ray images revealed a series of regularly spaced holes hidden beneath ...

X-ray images taken up to that point were difficult to interpret, and most mainstream historians ignored the artifact. The Antikythera mechanism would not be appreciated for what it was until the ...

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More than 900 tornadoes have already been reported in the U.S. this year, according to the National Weather Service. This past week saw outbreaks in more than a dozen states that damaged or ...

Stone tool analysis of sites in Southeast Asia provided evidence that the area was a technological leader in seafaring. Archaeology supports that 40,000 years ago, the people living in Southeast ...

Satellite images have for the first time shown the extent of a shipyard accident in North Korea that damaged a new warship in the presence of the secretive state's leader, Kim Jong Un. The image ...

Satellite imagery captured what remained of a mangled 5,000-ton North Korean naval destroyer damaged during its launch ceremony this week, leaving the country's dictator distraught. A photo ...

The booklet claims that the Catholic Church dropped the "Second Commandment" which forbids "graven images", i.e. statues. Allegedly the Catholic Church condones statue worship. Now one version of ...

Someone had stolen a customer’s unique access code for an AI image generator and was going around safeguards to create sexualized images of celebrities. Misner and his coworkers revoked the code but ...

National Geographic's 100 best images of the year–curated from 106 photographers, 121 stories, and more than two million photographs. Leonardo’s “Mona Lisa” is believed to depict Lisa ...