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These strokes of genius are known as 'eureka!' moments. Here are five of them. Archimedes was an Ancient Greek inventor and mathematician born in Syracuse, on the eastern coast of Sicily ...

Then the magic happened. About 2200 years ago Archimedes stepped into his bath and exclaimed, “Eureka!” – ‘I found it.’ At that moment he found a solution to a problem he had been ...

("I have found it!")—the original eureka moment. Sadly, it is unlikely that this is actually how Archimedes solved the problem. Instead, it is more likely that Archimedes used a related idea ...

Conor McKeon: Has ‘boring’ Rory McIlroy had his eureka moment and discovered key to winning Masters? Call him Archimedes ...

engineers Li Linfeng and Bui Xuan Hien from Eureka Robotics, with their new Archimedes robot. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

NTU spinoff company Eureka Robotics developed Archimedes, which has the precision and dexterity of a human hand. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

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.