It is appropriate that Arthur C. Clarke recommended this book before his death in March 2008. Decoding the Heavens tells the story of the 2,000-year-old Antikythera Mechanism and its decipherment. The ...

WHEN a Greek sponge diver called Elias Stadiatos discovered the wreck of a cargo ship off the tiny island of Antikythera in 1900, it was the statues lying on the seabed that made the greatest ...

Tiny single-celled critters obviously don't have room for a brain to tell them how to move in complex ways, so to get about, they usually roll, slither or swim. But microscopic pond dwellers called ...