A sharp-edged, sometimes affecting exploration of the fault line where professional and emotional lives meet, Gerardo Herrero's intelligent and thoroughly contempo "The Archimedes Principle" reps this ...

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 ...

Blending "The Da Vinci Code" and Geraldo Rivera's "Al Capone" vault stunt on live TV, Menlo Park scientists plan to use an X-ray beam to investigate writings by one of the ancient world's greatest ...

Ever since Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge and became shamed out of Paradise, there has been an inextricable bond between discovery and emotion. The classic scientific example is the ...