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Four hundred years ago Galileo Galilei’s scientific findings were rejected because they didn’t fit the prevailing beliefs of the time. His story is disturbingly relevant today. Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio and Scientific American editor Clara Moskowitz to discusses lessons from Galileo’s life for dealing with science deniers now, plus a historical detective story about Galileo’s famous motto, “And yet it moves.”

Conflicting viewpoints coexist at the crossroads of math and art

Book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American

Science in meter and verse

Pictures created from old observations show the void’s stormy evolution over the past decade

Here are some brief reports about science and technology from all over, including one from Israel about what DNA reveals about the Dead Sea Scrolls’ parchment. 

Here is how a perfectly ordinary number captured the interest of sci-fi enthusiasts, geeks and mathematicians

Forty-five years after the movie made everyone afraid to wade into the ocean, it’s not too late to remind viewers of the truth about sharks

Here’s what educational TV from the late 1940s and early 1950s can teach us today

How the words we use have evolved over the past 175 years

New science book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American

A classic data visualization brought an astronomical curiosity to music lovers