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The fascinating story of the discovery of, and subsequent quest to decode, the ancient Greek 'Antikythera mechanism', the world's first computer

About the Author

Jo Marchant is Opinion Editor at New Scientist magazine. She has a PhD in medical microbiology and has been a science journalist for nine years. She spent three years of that as an editor at the journal Nature, and her articles have also appeared in the Guardian and The Economist. She lives with her boyfriend in Brixton, London.