The reason some things float, and others don't is explained by the Archimedes Principle. This week, Meteorologist Ray Petelin shows us how small changes in an object can make a big difference in ...

Archimedes was possibly the world's greatest scientist — at least the greatest in the classical age. He was a physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor and engineer. Many of his inventions ...

Archimedes' insight explained. April 15, 2004 — 10.00pm. Save. Log in, register or subscribe to save articles for later. ... Archimedes's famous Eureka moment came while he was having a bath.

Besides the Archimedes screw, there is the Archimedes principle, the law of buoyancy that states the upward force on a submerged object equals the weight of the liquid displaced.

Intrigued by the floating mechanisms of water striders and the updated Archimedes’ principle, which states that floating force equals the expelled liquid volume, researchers sought to discover ...