A sharp-edged, sometimes affecting exploration of the fault line where professional and emotional lives meet, Gerardo Herrero's intelligent and thoroughly contempo "The Archimedes Principle" reps this ...

One day, in the 3rd Century BC, King Hiero II of Syracuse, Sicily, summoned Archimedes—a young, Greek physicist and mathematician, donning a long, flowing, white beard—to verify that his new crown was ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Sometimes, physics seems weird, and our experiment today is no different. Let's perform the experiment first, then we'll explain. This experiment is an easy one, too. All you need ...

A new limited-time exhibit at the Cranbrook Institute of Science invites visitors of all ages to exclaim 'Eureka!' as they learn new ideas in math, science, and history. “The Science of Archimedes” ― ...

Archimedes didn’t really invent a death ray. But more than 2,200 years after his death, the ancient Greek’s inventions are still driving technological innovations — so much so that experts from around ...

Like Archimedes notably stated, “Give me a lever long enough, and I will move the Earth,” an innovation, inspired by the principle, is ready to transform the renewable energy world. In this context, ...