Will Noel knows a treasure when he sees it. Lately he has been like a man just put down in Ali Baba’s cave. The treasure Noel is contemplating these days is a thousand-year-old book, containing ideas ...

It arrived in tatters - but after a decade of delicate restoration Archimedes' oldest surviving work is now on display. The 1,000-year-old Archimedes Palimpsest - which was bought at auction by an ...

A particle accelerator is being used to reveal the long-lost writings of the Greek mathematician Archimedes, work hidden for centuries after a Christian monk wrote over it in the Middle Ages. Highly ...

Blending "The Da Vinci Code" and Geraldo Rivera's "Al Capone" vault stunt on live TV, Menlo Park scientists plan to use an X-ray beam to investigate writings by one of the ancient world's greatest ...

Do you know Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287–212 BCE) is celebrated as one of history’s greatest scientific minds? He was a ...

The Greek inventor Archimedes supposedly used mirrors to set fire to invading ships. To test the possibility, a middle-school student designed an experiment for his science fair. Using light bulbs and ...

BALTIMORE -- Long-hidden writings of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes are ready to go on display at Baltimore's Teams of scientists and scholars spent 12 years using a variety of methods, ...

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 ...

A series of hidden texts written by the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes are being revealed by US scientists. Until now, the pages have remained obscured by paintings and texts laid down on top ...