It was against a Jesuit who had written about comets and was a manifesto for intellectual freedom in science. In 1623 his friend in Florence, Maffeo Barberini, was elected Pope and Galileo could ...

GALILEO: Good morning, guys, I hope you're having a lovely day. I am Galileo Galilei, a scientist from Italy and I am the man who is making some exciting discoveries around force and I am here ...

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Perimeter) invites you to celebrate 25 years of discovery with the opening of ...

Galileo played with this formula until ... on the optical axis—hence the color fringes seen in refractors. Other scientists had speculated that using mirrors rather than lenses might correct ...

Galileo Galilei – often referred to just as Galileo – is someone who often needs no introduction. An Italian astronomer, physicist, mathematician, and philosopher, Galileo was a polymath who ...

Still, Galileo did perform some ingenious experiments on gravity while at Pisa. In fact, for his approach to science, that of using math in analyzing the results of experiments, he is credited ...

Galileo Galilei has often found mention in the columns of NATURE. In every recrudescence of the old controversy between science and religion it is as certain to crop up as King Charles's head in Mr.

Galileo never stopped thinking, writing, and dreaming. His resilience in the face of persecution laid the foundation for modern physics and inspired generations of scientists to question authority ...

Astronomy enthusiasts in Madurai witnessed a rare planetary alignment of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, organized by the ...

Early telescopes were all refracting telescopes of the kind Galileo made. While they revolutionized the science of astronomy, they had some innate downsides. The act of refraction also causes ...