It’s the most wonderful time of the year—for mathematicians, anyway. Pi Day is Saturday, March 14. The relatively new holiday is a celebration of the mathematical calculation pi, or the infinite ...

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 ...

Thousands of years ago, Ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes posited that a death ray could be created to harness the power of the Sun. Now, a 13-year-old student in Canada has put the ancient ...

A new limited-time exhibit at the Cranbrook Institute of Science invites visitors of all ages to exclaim 'Eureka!' as they learn new ideas in math, science, and history. “The Science of Archimedes” ― ...

It all started off as a joke, a French researcher told AFP. But what the team found was a piece of history -- a long-lost page from a legendary manuscript by ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes ...

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 ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Ancient Greece mathematician Archimedes believed a death ray was plausible, so a middle school student from Canada put the concept to the test.