A young Galileo is perched atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He is in the middle of his famous experiment—the one in which he shows, by dropping cannonballs of different weights, that all objects ...

By that logic, in this experiment the 10 lb cannonball would have fallen ten times faster than the 1 lb cannonball. Even Galileo's contemporaries could see that this wasn't the case. Still ...

I am Galileo Galilei, a scientist from Italy and I am ... Well, it's 1589, and I am here to carry out an experiment about force. Now force is the push and pull on an object and I'm not so sure ...

Did you know the Leaning Tower of Pisa started in August 1173? It has made it through at least four big earthquakes. The ...

from elections to dangerous conflicts, we can lose sight of how long it can take for processes emerging now to play out over time. I was reminded of this last week when, during a science-based visit ...

While Galileo Galilei fancied himself a strong purveyor of both the scientific and theological, his moral core of truth at the center of his existence faced a brutal reckoning — one that ultimately ...

The series also reminds us of both the visionaries we are all familiar with and those that many viewers will discover for the first time: Galileo Galilei ... of-the-art experiments, groundbreaking ...

Their experiment showed that the speed of light ... no matter which inertial frame you are in. Galileo Galilei originally ...