When audience members enter the Trap Door Theatre for Bertolt Brecht’s “Galileo,” they see a nearly naked man, sitting on a ...

Galileo Galilei is arguably the most important scientist to ever live. He perfected the first telescopes, turned them toward the Universe and what he discovered changed the course of history forever.

“I think about the mudslide at Chair 7 and how that could have potentially been ... that he relates to the 16th century Italian scientists Giordano Bruno and Galileo Galilei. “Bruno was the first guy ...

The test takes inspiration from the findings of legendary scientist Galileo Galilei, whose groundbreaking discoveries made us understand the universe in a better way. Galileo Galilei was an ...

Davide Gaiotto, a leading young mathematical physicist, was recruited from Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study and will hold The Krembil Foundation Galileo Galilei Chair in Theoretical Physics at ...

But did you know that the painter Artemisia Gentileschi was pen pals with the astronomer Galileo Galilei? The pair wrote back and forth, and in one famous letter in 1635, the artist asked the ...

This season’s example is Philip Glass’s “Galileo Galilei” (2002), a chamber piece that examines the courage of the scientist who challenged established orthodoxy. In the thoughtful ...

With science denialism and theocratic politics both on the rise, it’s an opportune moment to revisit the life of Galileo Galilei, whose discoveries about the cosmos four centuries ago were ...