What did Galileo invent? Why was he put under house arrest? On his birth anniversary, take this ThePrint quiz to check how ...

Proverb of the day by Galileo Galilei: Galileo Galilei’s profound proverb, “Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the ...

Italian mathematician Galileo Galilei was born in Feb. 15, 1564, in Pisa. Often summarized as the father of modern science, certainly a polymath and a brilliant thinker who operated on a high ...

After catching wind of Galileo’s beliefs, the cardinals of the Inquisition convened and decided to condemn Copernicus’ work ...

The musical, called “Galileo,” will star Raúl Esparza, and is scheduled to open in December at the Shubert Theater.

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Every time you decide whether to buy a coffee or save your money, you are using a basic idea from science. Economics looks at how people, businesses, and countries make choices. It explores how we use ...

An old adage tells us that pressure can burst a pipe, but pressure can also make a diamond. It’s a soothing creed for life’s tumult. It applied most directly to me during my past life as a ...

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A new book tells the stories of scientists “ridiculed, exiled, and imprisoned for being right.” Nuno Castel-Branco is a historian of science at the University of Oxford and writes the Stories of ...

UA Regents Professor John G. Hildebrand and UA Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Gail Burd in many ways epitomize the ideals of the Galileo Circle. The Galileo Circle was formed to create ...

Archaeologists in Italy recently unearthed a 2,000-year-old basilica linked to Vitruvius, the legendary engineer long known as the father of architecture. The building remains were found in Fano, a ...