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 ...

Which Lego wheel will spin the fastest? Watch as Lego wheels face off on a test rig, with the winner determined by the highest velocity. The score is calculated based on wheel size (circumference) and ...

After testing out replicas of the ancient devices, the authors of a new study suggest that they were functional spindle ...

Early human cultures likely used stones as spindle whorls to spin fibers into yarn. A collection of perforated pebbles discovered at an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, marking a ...