The history of technology is frequently written about in terms of major advancements and great leaps in speed. But the device ...

We owe web cameras to a group of caffeine-starved computer scientists who just wanted to know if there was coffee in the pot ...

Twelve-year-old Brenden Sener was so captivated by the Archimedes Death Ray legend that he explored its feasibility in a science project. Through his experiment, Sener demonstrated that mirrors could ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human history, and there’s an ...

The Antikythera computer was the culmination of advanced mathematics, astronomy, metallurgy and engineering. It incorporated the philosophy and science of Aristotle, the gears of Ktesibios, the ...

This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. In a stunning discovery, a new chapter is being written in the saga of one of the ancient world’s most influential mathematicians. A metaphorical new ...

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A leaf from a medieval manuscript containing ancient Greek mathematical treatises has been rediscovered in the archives of a French museum. Previously, historians assumed the rare page had been lost ...

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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 which ...

A missing page from the Archimedes Palimpsest was found in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois. The 20th-century illustration added to the newly discovered page of the Archimedes ...

The Archimedes Palimpsest is one of the treasures of antiquity. This medieval manuscript, dating the to the 10th century, includes copies of the writings of Archimedes of Syracuse, a Greek ...