In simple terms, Archimedes' Principle explains that the weight of a displaced fluid is directly proportional to its volume. Archimedes' study of the properties of fluids is still prevalent today ...

and Archimedes' principle of buoyancy. Legend has it that he discovered this principle while in the bath, where he noticed that the more of his body he submerged in the water, the greater the ...

Mt. Everest is growing faster than it should be. Erosion is causing Mt. Everest to float up out of the mantle, climbing in ...

This became known as Archimedes' principle. He used the principle to figure out if a goldsmith was cutting his gold with a less-dense metal, such as silver (as the story goes). But you can use it to ...

Willis, Shirley. New York, NY: Scholastic Library Publishing, 2000. Explores floating and sinking and Archimedes' principle of buoyancy with simple experiments. For children. Provides a biography ...

Hope, and ambition, are traits that come naturally to human beings. Everyone feels the need to become ‘someone’, to achieve ...

By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Moving water somewhere you want it to go is a pain in the butt. Projects involving moving large amounts of water generally use an electric pump, such as ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Technically it’s ancient technology. But now the two-millennia-old principle of the Greek mathematician Archimedes has ...

Of course it doesn’t — the cube is already in the water! Archimedes’ principle! The better experiment would be to drop a cube of ice into a glass of water. Does the level rise then?

IF I were asked to describe the world as I see it today, I would readily give this answer: it has hardly changed since 2,200 ...

While not all pipes are round, circular pipes are preferred for most flow applications. Circular pipes allow more uniform ...

On a quiet, lazy October morning, the sun rose over the Sandias, gradually stealing away the shadows covering Albuquerque. A dozen or so hot air balloons, some 1,600 feet above ground level, scattered ...