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... yet but, based on information obtained on the Voyager and Galileo missions, scientists suspect that inside Europa, one of the icy moons ... there exist reservoirs of liquid. The Voyager and Galileo missions also registered fractures and `chaotic´ terrains associated ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 14 2014 - 10:16am - 0 attachments

I believe I am not alone in being fascinated by the ongoing debates about this or that physics experiment being on the verge of destroying the Earth. Microscopic black holes produced by mistake in particle physics experiments sinking down to the center of ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 18 2014 - 10:24am - 0 attachments

... the two can't get along. If you see 'scientocracy' or 'Galileo' invoked, you can be sure rationality has left the discussion. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2014 - 10:24am - 0 attachments

Yesterday I visited a high school in Treviso, a small centre in north-west Italy. The students of the last two years participate in a program called "masterclasses" which includes lessons on particle physics and astrophysics and a visit to the department ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 15 2014 - 9:59am - 0 attachments

... The geologists combined images from the Voyager and Galileo spacecraft to put the map together. Voyager was the first mission to ... and fractured into dark and light terrain. In 1995, the Galileo spacecraft was placed in orbit around Jupiter and began to return ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2014 - 4:54pm - 0 attachments

... some concept of "space") goes back at least as far back as Galileo, and was certainly used my Newton, even though the ability to express ...

Article - David Halliday - Jan 1 2014 - 11:08pm - 0 attachments

... life, an idea reinforced by magnetometer readings from the Galileo spacecraft detecting signs of a salty, global ocean below the moon's ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2013 - 6:00am - 0 attachments

... And a completely fake one. In the tidy narrative , Galileo was a man of pure reason persecuted by the mean Catholic Church. His ... wanted a strong argument for Copernicus and even helped Galileo with the title of his book, but some insults can't be ignored so ...

Cool Link - Hank Campbell - Nov 17 2013 - 9:01am - 0 attachments

... VIII is almost exclusively known for having summoned Galileo to Rome in 1633 and forcing him to recant his work.  However, from ... to the programme, it was composed about the time that Galileo was being tried.  Pope Urban ( meddan nhw *) was so enchanted by ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Nov 9 2013 - 10:05am - 0 attachments

... it basically starts with Rene Descartes. Indeed, both Galileo and Hobbes [1] — who were aware of Descartes’ work — were ... inertia, which was again taken up and elaborated upon by Galileo, and eventually Newton (becoming incorporated in the latter’s ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Oct 29 2013 - 7:30am - 0 attachments