the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton. Those two scientific geniuses, as Sir Isaac himself acknowledged, built upon the work of others, and how they came to design their inventions ...

Instead, they offered him payment in exchange for developing a binocular form of his invention. Shortly after he began producing his binoculars, news of the telescope reached Galileo. These days ...

etc. But Brecht complicates this picture. His Galileo is a notably selfish hero—willing to steal other people’s inventions, indifferent to his daughter (who he never teaches), seeking after ...

Galileo was part of the Renaissance, the centuries-long ferment accelerated and intensified by the invention of printing in the middle of the 15th century. He was not alone. More or less ...

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 ...

Potassium and sodium may well have been named potarchium and sodarchium, a new digital platform focusing on the life, times ...

"We have a new phrase called the 'new four great inventions' in China, including high-speed railway, online shopping, mobile payment and sharing bikes," he told journalists at the NPC. But these ...

In a new biography, Dava Sobel focuses not just on the legendary physicist and chemist, but on the 45 women who worked in her ...

Liftoff of the Galileo L13 mission occurred at 6:50 p.m. ET. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two European navigation satellites tonight (Sept. 17) and then landed safely, acing its 22nd mission.

Sept. 17 (UPI) --SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the European Commission's Galileo L13 mission Tuesday, successfully delivering its navigation satellite constellation to a medium-Earth ...