Early human cultures likely used stones as spindle whorls to spin fibers into yarn. A collection of perforated pebbles ...

Archaeological findings in Israel push the wheel's origins back to 12,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of early ...

While most of us learned that the wheel was invented around 3500 BCE for transportation, a groundbreaking discovery in Israel suggests we need to roll back our understanding of rotational technology ...

Discover the incredible skill and technical mastery involved as mechanics replace broken rear wheel axle teeth on a ...

Child-proofing your home isn't easy. Besides watching for recalls of children's products, it's also important to keep track of recalls of household products and, if your child is at all athletic, ...

Many theories have tried to explain when and where the wheel and axle were first invented. A new study examines a relatively recent theory that miners in the Carpathian Mountains created the first ...

Study suggests 6,000-year-old wheel origin in Carpathian Mountains Copper miners may have developed early wheel innovations Modelling techniques reveal possible origins of ancient wheels ...

Clever as this may be from an evolutionary standpoint, it lacks one of the key aspects that makes wheels useful to us: the axle. Just rolling a stone downhill at your enemies doesn’t really ...

These results indicate that the proposed sequence for the progression of the wheel and axle offers a plausible descent path along which the wheel could have evolved as its users sought more energy ...

The unique physical features of the mining environment played a key role in the evolution of the wheel and axle system, they say. Archaeologists discover more than 50 Viking skeletons in Denmark ...

By utilizing cutting-edge design algorithms, the researchers were able to simulate the incremental innovations that led from early roller-based systems to the first wheels with axles. Their ...