When people think of computers, they picture smartphones, laptops, or even room-sized machines from the 1950s. But what if the world's first computer was actually built more than 2,000 years ...

In 1847, at the age of just twenty-seven, Ada Lovelace became the world’s first computer programmer—more than a century before the first computer was even built. This almost sounds like a myth, or the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human history, and there’s an ...

Many "modern" inventions actually have precedents dating back more than 1000 years, to ancient Greek and Roman times.

The first computer didn’t show up looking like anything we’d call a computer now. There was no screen, no keyboard, no mouse, ...

A Greek shipwreck holds the remains of an intricate bronze machine that turns out to be the world's first computer. (This program is no longer available for streaming.) In 1900, a storm blew a ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: In 2024, scientists from the University of Glasgow leveraged statistical methods like Bayesian analysis—as well as techniques developed to study ...