shouting "Eureka!" (Greek for "I have found it!"). When the Romans invaded Syracuse in 214 B.C., Archimedes invented "engines of war" to defend the city, including cranes to drop rocks ...

These strokes of genius are known as 'eureka!' moments. Here are five of them. Archimedes was an Ancient Greek inventor and mathematician born in Syracuse, on the eastern coast of Sicily ...

The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by Archimedes, a Greek thinker who is regarded as the greatest mathematician of antiquity. The story of the 174-page ...

NTU spinoff company Eureka Robotics developed Archimedes, which has the precision and dexterity of a human hand. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

Click the link to the right to hear Chadwick's eureka moment and see the video that inspired it. Anika Gupta | | Read More Anika Gupta’s writing has appeared in India and the United States ...

Yet, the word most famously associated with Archimedes is “Eureka!” – the exclamation he reportedly made upon discovering the principle of buoyancy. Owing to Archimedes’ fame the word ...