Frank Herbert’s Dune popularized windtraps as devices that harvest moisture from desert air, but real ancient Iran developed a different innovation, the windcatcher, a 4,000 year old passive cooling ...

On Wednesday, Nov. 5, University of Massachusetts classics lecturer Joseph Wilson took the students in his course, Technology in the Ancient World, to the glassblowing laboratory of Sally Prasch. The ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a precision that still unsettles modern engineers. The corroded fragments of ...