Rocket Lab USA Inc.’s successful test of its Archimedes engine bodes well for the space-launch company’s new Neutron rocket, says Cantor. SpaceX rival Rocket Lab reported a 71% second-quarter ...

Named for its inventor, the Greek mathematician Archimedes (237-212 BCE), the Archimedes screw is a device for raising water. Essentially, it is a large screw, open at both ends and encased lengthwise ...

(Greek for "I have found it!"). When the Romans invaded Syracuse in 214 B.C., Archimedes invented "engines of war" to defend the city, including cranes to drop rocks, claws to lift ships from the ...