Europe has given fresh momentum to its Galileo navigation system following the successful Dec. 17 launch of two new ...
Galileo pursued all his bold investigations convinced that Nature followed a Divine order. Just as the Bible represented the dictated word of God, so the natural world embodied God's work. The ...
Four hundred years ago this month, Galileo was in Rome, trying to pick up the pieces of the Catholic Church's recent declaration that Copernican astronomy was contrary to scripture and not open for ...
In basketball, legends are often known by first name alone: LeBron, Kobe, Michael. Same with entertainers: Madonna, Cher, Beyoncé. But lists of scientific legends almost always include surnames, never ...
Not every astronomer can claim to have enjoyed both the attention of the Inquisition and the Indigo Girls, but then again, Galileo was no ordinary genius. Discoverer of moons, toppler of Aristotle's ...
The novel coronavirus has upended our world over the past several months, forcing people to learn how to work in entirely new ways. For scientists in particular, Isaac Newton has repeatedly been held ...