PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Sometimes, physics seems weird, and our experiment today is no different. Let's perform the experiment first, then we'll explain. This experiment is an easy one, too. All you need ...

One such question, asked every now and then, is why humans float more easily in saltwater. There are a few places in the world where this is especially apparent, for example in the Dead Sea, or in the ...

One day, in the 3rd Century BC, King Hiero II of Syracuse, Sicily, summoned Archimedes—a young, Greek physicist and mathematician, donning a long, flowing, white beard—to verify that his new crown was ...

WIESBADEN, Germany -- Considered one of the seven wonders of the modern world by the American Society of Civil Engineers, it makes sense two engineers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe ...

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 ...

The video of the rescue operation has garnered a lot of praise on social media. Forest officials in West Bengal's Midnapur have rescued an elephant from a ditch “by applying Archimedes' principle”.