Scholars are reconsidering what ancient Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes knew of the concept of infinity, and archaeologists may have found a fossil brain millions of years old ...

The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by Archimedes, the Greek thinker who is regarded as the greatest mathematician of antiquity. In this interactive ...

Sennacherib was using the shape of a date palm to describe an Archimedes screw. - When you invent something, you've got to find words for it. Like on your computer, you have this 'mouse.

Ancient Greece mathematician Archimedes believed a death ray was plausible, so a middle school student from Canada put the concept to the test. Brenden Sener of Ontario won multiple medals for his ...

He championed Archimedes. Although I reckon Roger Bacon comes closer to deserving that label, the result reflects the respect still felt for Archimedes' work. Yet our knowledge of his output has ...