New research reveals that Dante Alighieri's Inferno wasn't just a masterpiece of literature: it was a gedankenexperiment in impact physics. From multi-ring craters to shockwaves that reshaped the ...

For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has been treated as theology, political commentary and medieval literature folded ...

Dante's Inferno describes Hell as a vast, inverted conical pit beneath the Earth's surface, narrowing downward through nine ...

Dante’s Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially ...

What if Dante’s Inferno wasn’t just poetry? New research suggests the 14th-century epic may have quietly mapped the mechanics of a planetary impact, centuries before modern meteoritics existed.

For centuries, Dante Alighieri’s Inferno has been read as a moral and spiritual descent, a journey into sin, punishment, and ...

Medieval meets meteoritics: Researchers argue Dante’s depiction of Hell mirrors the structure of a large planetary impact crater, predating modern science by 500 years. Impact physics in poetry: The ...

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The National Academy of Sciences elected three faculty from the University of California San Diego to membership, one of the ...

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