His name was Galileo Galilei and he was in his mid-forties when he heard ... at university – and assured him of a satisfactory income while he continued his experiments in astronomy. In the autumn of ...

There are currently 92 moons known to orbit Jupiter. The four largest – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 when he pointed the first astronomical telescope ...

The origins of the decoration lie in Vienna’s 17th district, where the inventor’s descendants are still making them for collectors around the world Erik Trinidad Freelance writer In the ...

Over time, many considered it a harmless quirk of physics, dismissed without much further investigation. Now, fresh experiments suggest that this behavior might carry deeper implications related to ...

From a telescope network that spans much of the globe to a psychology study that spans 67 countries, here are the biggest science experiments on the planet. When you purchase through links on our ...

Brahe and Kepler, along with Sir Isaac Newton and Galileo Galilei, were giants who replaced the medieval view of the world with a modern one, said Kaare Lund Rasmussen, lead author of the Brahe study ...

According to Paul’s Festivus report this year, the NIH has spent more than $1.5 million on what he characterizes as “medieval-type experiments” on kittens involving electroshock therapy and ...

The researchers repeated the experiment numerous times for each combination, then meticulously analyzed the videos and all the advanced tracking data while using computer simulations and various ...

Every time the scientists need to change an experiment’s parameters — which is all the time — they’d have to wait for the programmer to program the bot, debug it, and so on. In most cases ...

These remarkable female scientists changed the world with their discoveries, paving the way for generations of women to follow their dreams. Read a book and try a science activity related to the story ...