New simulations suggest that the Antikythera Mechanism may have jammed within months, as small errors in the spacing.

Her murder mysteries have captivated audiences for more than a century, but, 50 years after her death, she remains an enigma.

No matter the item on my list of childhood occupational dreams, one constant ran throughout: I saw myself using an ...

The intricate system allegedly operated through electronic oscillography, analyzing sound waves with unprecedented precision and converting them back into their original forms. Light could be ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! International Spy Museum historian and curator Andrew Hammond provided a tour of the Museum, highlighting the World War II era German Enigma machine ...

There’s no shortage of apocalyptic headlines about the future of work in the era of artificial intelligence. For workers, the technology has inflicted anxiety and uncertainty, provoking questions of ...

Work to begin digging a new Hudson Tunnel is set to begin this spring as two tunnel boring machines custom-built for the project are on their way to New Jersey. The new rail tunnel, called the Gateway ...

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Army historian Peter Knight joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about World War II. What is the timeline of World War II? Who, exactly, were the ‘Ghost Army’ in World War II? How ...

An extremely rare and operational Nazi Enigma encryption machine, famously cracked by Allied codebreakers during World War II, has sold for nearly half a million euros in Paris, double its expected ...

A World War Two codebreaking machine and its Royal Navy operators have been commemorated in wool. Yarn bomber Clare Reeves, who works at Bletchley Park's learning centre, crocheted and knitted the ...