"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Its name is Quipu, and astronomers estimate that its massive bulk stretches some 1.39 billion light-years ...

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Scientists have discovered Quipu, the largest structure in the universe. Made up of multiple galaxy clusters, this structure creates a vast cosmic superstructure that spans 1.3 billion light years.

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The absence of modern-day calculators did not stop ancient cultures from performing extraordinary feats of mathematics. The ancient Greeks kept count with abaci, frames with rods or grooves for moving ...

Long before Spanish colonization, the indigenous people of Peru kept track of important dates and numbers, and perhaps even stories, using a mysterious coding system of strings and knots called a ...

To explore deep space is to come to grips with humanity’s ever-shrinking importance in the universe. In another shot to our cosmic ego, scientists have discovered a new superstructure, named Quipu, ...