The transition from mythology to rational, scientific thought in Ancient Greece set the foundation for Western civilization.

As such, the palimpsest hosts a number of 10th century treatises by the Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes of Syracuse (though the original texts would have been centuries older). Notably, ...

A 2,100-year-old sling bullet with a sarcastic inscribed message “learn” attached was found in ...

Students in Greece will revive Eratosthenes' calculation of the Earth’s radius and circumference, a remarkable experiment in ...

The much-anticipated sci-fi film Project Hail Mary is out in theaters today. In it, light-eating alien microbes sap the sun’s ...

Of the many lead sling bullets discovered at Hippos over the last 26 years, this is the first to carry a message of some kind.

Researchers exploring Uganda’s Kibale National Park have discovered seven new species of frog-like leafhoppers. The tiny ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence that a weapon known as the polybolos—or multi-thrower—was used during the Roman conquest ...

The Archimedes Palimpsest is a 10th-century Byzantine Greek manuscript that was overwritten in the 13th century with a Christian liturgical text. This practice of creating a palimpsest, or a reused ...

Pi Day is celebrated every year on March 14, honouring the significance of the mathematical constant π and its applications ...

In the 1950s, a passenger in Leeds, England, boarded a bus and paid their fare with a funny-looking coin. For the bus driver, ...