A young Galileo is perched atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He is in the middle of his famous experiment—the one in which he shows, by dropping cannonballs of different weights, that all objects ...

Did you know the Leaning Tower of Pisa started in August 1173? It has made it through at least four big earthquakes. The ...

As of June 1999, the Leaning Tower of Pisa leaned an inch less than it had at the beginning of the year. It may sound like a small step for the tower, but it's a giant leap for the Pisa Commission ...

It's enough to give a monument an identity crisis. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is known worldwide for its precarious tilt - but now experts have revealed it's going straight. The tower's ...

Bye-ee! This vlog style film recreates a famous experiment in which Galileo, an Italian scientist, dropped two objects from the Leaning tower of Pisa in 1589. He explains that he did the ...

Oh, the Leaning Tower of Pisa — so touristy and yet so fun. Each day, hordes of visitors come to the small northwestern Tuscan town of Pisa to take pictures "propping up" its tower. Some do it ...

In an early experiment, reputedly conducted from the balcony of the leaning tower of Pisa, Galileo dropped a musket ball and cannon ball, many times the mass of the musket ball, to see how fast they ...