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For over a century researchers have been trying to figure out how an ancient corroded clockwork orrery found at the bottom of the Mediterranean was used by classical Greek astronomers to predict events like solar eclipses. Despite many attempts to model and rebuild the unique Antikythera Mechanis...

If a picture of a Narwhal doesn't trigger four of the five Ws - who, what, why, where? - then you are either a marine biologist or have no imagination. Apparently, their improbably tusk can also raise the question "when?". Like tree trunks, a layer of horn is added every year, and as narwhals can...

Scotland's road gritters might sound like tough machines, clearing snow and icing roads, but they have the best names: Gangsta Granny Gritter, Ready Spready Go, For Your Ice Only, License to Chill, and Spready Mercury, amongst others. There's also a great map to track them here.