Trying to prove Albert Einstein wrong is one of scientists' favorite hobbies, but it usually doesn't meet with a whole lot of success. That's still the case when you try to take general relativity to ...

Since Galileo ground his own glass for the lenses of his occhiolino, scientists and doctors have relied on microscopes. And for those last 486 years, microscopes have remained too expensive, ...

Traditional microscopy is reaching its final days. And it's about time too. The optical microscope has been around since 1590 and Galileo made the compound microscope popular in the sciences in the ...

A look at Galileo Galilei's most notable innovations, discoveries and observations in the field of astronomy, physics and other disciplines on the noted Italian physicist, mathematician, engineer, ...

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