Roger Gilbertson was sitting in his easy chair, watching shadows move across his house when he suddenly became curious about ...

the Earth-destroying bomb, but in the Cold War, America was actually working on a top-secret plan called 'Project Sundial' to create a nuclear weapon that could destroy humanity with just one shot.

Tens of thousands of people gathered outside the gates of the Dodger Stadium as security and staff frantically acted to ...

Julien Coyne invented a digital sundial. Sundials usually cast a line or triangle to indicate the hour. This one is designed so that when light passes through, it displays the shapes of numbers.

The inventions of the hemispherium and the hemicyclium are attributed to Berosus (356-323 BCE), a Chaldean priest and astronomer who brought these types of sundials to Greece. Both dials use the shape ...

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