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 ...

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 ...

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 ...