Quote of the day: Archimedes words not just reflect a physical principle but also serve as a metaphor for intellectual ...

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 ...

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 ...

Do you know Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287–212 BCE) is celebrated as one of history’s greatest scientific minds? As a young man, he travelled to Alexandria, Egypt, a major centre of learning, to study ...

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 ...

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