Sener has since earned multiple medals for his attempt to bring the ancient device to life. In his view, he as shown that ...

The oldest known copy of Archimedes’ work lies hidden under the pages of a 13th century prayer book. For years, scientists and scholars tried to decipher what ancient script they could. Now, new ...

when it occurred to him. He was a mathematician nearly two millennia out of time: “Archimedes was the earliest thinker to ...

The Palimpsest, a writing of Archimedes once thought lost to history, has been revealed through the advanced use of a ...

We talked with author Peter F. Hamilton about Exodus: The Archimedes Engine, a prequel novel to the sci-fi RPG video game Exodus.

A long-lost work by Archimedes shows his subtle grasp of the notion of infinity, and how close he was to developing calculus.

Archimedes saw the water level change as he dipped into the tub and, in a flash of insight, realized he could use the same phenomenon to test the purity of gold.

We talked with author Peter F. Hamilton about Exodus: The Archimedes Engine, a prequel novel to the sci-fi RPG video game Exodus.

A typical page from the Archimedes Palimpsest. The text of the prayer book is seen from top to bottom, the original Archimedes manuscript is seen as fainter text below it running from left to right.