Clockwork devices were popular right up until motors and electronics proved far more capable in just about every way. However, there’s something charming about a device you can wind up to make it do ...

Micromachines can now be made from entirely biocompatible materials owing to a new photolithographic additive manufacturing method. As reported in Science Robotics, this technique was used to create a ...

INSCRIPTIONS on a mysterious 2000-year-old clockwork device suggest that the artefact was inspired by earlier devices made by the great Greek mathematician Archimedes. The so-called “Antikythera ...