Simply put, Burbery argues that Dante’s Inferno demonstrates an intuitive understanding of certain aspects of geophysics and ...

At the beginning of the 14th century, Dante Alighieri composed the Inferno, a poem that describes with surprising accuracy ...

Dante’s vision of Hell may echo the physics of a massive asteroid strike, offering a new way to read the Inferno.

A provocative new study suggests Dante’s Inferno may have secretly doubled as a giant cosmic impact scenario centuries before ...

Dante's description of the fall of Lucifer to Earth from heaven seems to sport many of the hallmarks of an impact, forming a ...

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 ...

Last month, a statue was unveiled in Cleveland's Cultural Gardens honoring the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. Its timing coincides with a new translation of "Inferno," the first third of his masterwork ...

“The world’s greatest mind is facing his greatest challenge.” So touts the first full trailer for Inferno, again starring Tom Hanks as symbologist/humanity savior Robert Langdon. He’s the unlikely ...

In September, Anchor Books released a movie-tie-in edition of Dan Brown’s 2013 best-seller “Inferno,” to accompany Ron Howard’s adaptation of the novel, which came out in theatres last weekend.