Detection of an NH3 Absorption Band at 2.2 μm on Europa: #Europa, Recent Study Shows: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/01/29/nasas-galileo-mission-points-to-ammonia-at-europa-recent-study-shows/
Galileo's Handwritten Notes Discovered in a Medieval Astronomy Text - Slashdot
https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/02/28/0419233/galileos-handwritten-notes-discovered-in-a-medieval-astronomy-text
I'm reading Brecht's "Life of Galileo" at the moment.
Substitute the Roman Catholic Church for the Trump regime, ReformUK, and the rest of that shower and you could be reading the news from 2026.
https://fediscience.org/@hausfath/116059370988950395
In 1588, Galileo had not yet looked through a telescope.
Microscopes, pendulum clocks, barometers, and steam pumps were decades away.
Francis Bacon,
a member of parliament still in his twenties,
was only beginning his writing on science.
Robert Boyle wouldn’t be born for another 39 years,
Isaac Newton for another 55.
But a subtle shift in perspective was already taking place,
heralding the
‘culture of growth’
that would blossom i…