Archive for October, 2005

Best UK science photographs of 2005 announced

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

The best science photos of 2005 have been announced in the UK Visions of Science competition.
View the winners (and past winners) on the official site
Read an article about the competition and interviews with some of the winners

Ancient Greek computer reconstructed

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005

In 1901, divers working off the isle of Antikythera, Greece, found the remains of a clocklike mechanism. Dubbed the “Antikythera mechanism”, the device, which is estimated to be more than 2,000 years old, is believed to have been used to calculate positions of the sun and moon in the zodiac on a given date - […]