Archimedes was possibly the world's greatest scientist — at least the greatest in the classical age. He was a physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor and engineer. Many of his inventions, ...

Pick a point in time — any random point in the world's history — and you'll likely be able to find some sign of genius. Brilliant minds have speckled generations past, providing their people with ...

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 ...

Videos of a dramatic rescue operation in Odisha's Keonjhar have gone viral on social media after officials used Archimedes' principle to save an elephant that had fallen into a well. The principle, ...

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 ...