Archimedes devoted much of his life to the study of geometry. He was fascinated with shapes. Many of the shapes he studied can be found in nature. Archimedes mathematically described the constant ...

In his West London workshop, Michael Wright builds ancient mechanisms. In this Nature Video, we see his latest contraption, the sphere of Archimedes. Based on little more than ancient Greek texts, ...

Archimedes didn’t really invent a death ray. But more than 2,200 years after his death, the ancient Greek’s inventions are still driving technological innovations — so much so that experts from around ...

From headless worms to driverless cars, via the epigenome and the sphere of Archimedes: it's our multimedia editors' top picks of 2015. The remains of an ancient worm species called Hallucigenia were ...

When most people hear the name Archimedes, they picture a gaunt figure with a long beard screaming "Eureka!" and running around the streets naked, dripping with bathwater. Whether such a scene ever ...

Do you know Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287–212 BCE) is celebrated as one of history’s greatest scientific minds? As a young man, he travelled to Alexandria, Egypt, a major centre of learning, to study ...

ARCHIMEDES is one of the greatest mathematicians ever — and certainly the most famous of ancient Greece. Many of his discoveries were centuries ahead of their time. The Archimedean Screw, a device for ...

In his West London workshop, Michael Wright builds ancient mechanisms. In this Nature Video, we see his latest contraption, the Sphere of Archimedes. Based on little more than ancient Greek texts, ...