The Greek inventor Archimedes supposedly used mirrors to set fire to invading ships. To test the possibility, a middle-school student designed an experiment for his science fair. Using light bulbs and ...

Will Noel knows a treasure when he sees it. Lately he has been like a man just put down in Ali Baba’s cave. The treasure Noel is contemplating these days is a thousand-year-old book, containing ideas ...

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 ...

BALTIMORE -- Long-hidden writings of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes are ready to go on display at Baltimore's Teams of scientists and scholars spent 12 years using a variety of methods, ...

Greek inventor Archimedes is said to have used mirrors to burn ships of an attacking Roman fleet. But new research suggests he may have used steam cannons and fiery cannonballs instead. A legend begun ...

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 ...