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 ...

A suggested alternative is calculating body fat percentage through Archimedes' principle using underwater weighing, offering a more precise health indicator, despite being less practical than BMI.

The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by Archimedes, a Greek thinker who is regarded as the greatest mathematician of antiquity. The story of the 174-page ...

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 ...