On stepping into his bath and realizing that its rising water level showed a way to measure the volume of his king’s crown to determine if it was pure gold, the mathematician Archimedes famously ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

In 1204, European Crusaders on their way to Jerusalem stopped off at Constantinople, the center of the Byzantine Empire, and ransacked the place, looting and burning libraries that were storehouses of ...

Don’t worry about the math – just let the story told by authors Reviel Netz and William Noel take you. ‘The Archimedes Codex’ is an insider tale about the effort to save the earliest found work by the ...

Who were Archimedes, Ctesibius and Hero and what did they invent? And are their inventions still being used today, more than 2,000 years later? Born in Syracuse in 287 B.C. and educated in Alexandria, ...

The new Science of Archimedes exhibit is now open at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. The world premier was Friday Aug. 5 th and the fun continues thru Feb. 2017. This display showcases the inventions ...

If you think of Archimedes' "Eureka" moment, you're probably picturing a man in a bathtub, right? In reality, the story is far more complex than that. Armand D'Angour tells the story of Archimedes' ...

Reviel Netz, an assistant professor of classics, might not have actually shouted "Eureka!" on a visit last year to the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, but that's what he was thinking. A scholar of ...

The Water Scale is ingenious in its simplicity, using little more than a piston and a tube to weigh your cooking ingredients. The scale, from designers Muzaffer Kocer and Ayca Guven, uses Archimedes' ...