These strokes of genius are known as 'eureka!' moments. Here are five of them. Archimedes was an Ancient Greek inventor and mathematician born in Syracuse, on the eastern coast of Sicily ...

eureka!" DICK:In Greek, that means "I've got it, I've got it!" DOM:But what exactly had he got? DICK:If only Fran, our genius scientist, was here to tell us more. FRAN:So Archimedes was working on ...

engineers Li Linfeng and Bui Xuan Hien from Eureka Robotics, with their new Archimedes robot. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

Pi Day is Friday, March 14. The relatively new holiday is a celebration of the mathematical calculation pi, or the infinite number representing the constant ratio of a circle’s circumference to its ...

NTU spinoff company Eureka Robotics developed Archimedes, which has the precision and dexterity of a human hand. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

shouting "Eureka!" (Greek for "I have found it!"). When the Romans invaded Syracuse in 214 B.C., Archimedes invented "engines of war" to defend the city, including cranes to drop rocks ...

But there’s also another version of the Archimedes story — one that speaks more directly to the uniquely American journey of Bryan H. Bunch that began in Great Depression-ravaged St. Louis on Dec. 19, ...

Yet, the word most famously associated with Archimedes is “Eureka!” – the exclamation he reportedly made upon discovering the principle of buoyancy. Owing to Archimedes’ fame the word ...