If you drop a light object and a heavy object from a tower, which one reaches the ground first? As you may recall from high school physics, this is a trick question. Neglecting air resistance, they ...

Do you think that a heavy object and a lighter one dropped simultaneously will hit the floor at the same time? A new children's book, “Galileo's Leaning Tower Experiment,” by Wendy Macdonald, tells ...

Galileo's artistic skills aided his scientific understanding. His art training helped him interpret telescopic observations. Galileo's drawings were crucial to his discoveries and publications. His ...