By that logic, in this experiment the 10 lb cannonball would have fallen ten times faster than the 1 lb cannonball. Even Galileo's contemporaries could see that this wasn't the case. Still ...

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 ...

The Galileo Test is more than just a thought experiment. It is a guiding principle for developing AI systems capable of meaningful innovation. If achieved, it would redefine the role of AI in ...

Galileo's thermometer is a sealed liquid-filled glass cylinder containing sealed glass floats (in this case, labelled 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24 and 26 degrees C). The ...

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 ...

Galileo was immediately galvanised and asked Sarpi to caution ... teaching at university – and assured him of a satisfactory income while he continued his experiments in astronomy. In the autumn of ...

It was during his time in Padua that Galileo performed experiments on acceleration, invented the microscope, built a telescope, and made the celestial observations for which he is best known.

And yet scientists have often engaged in thought experiments, some of which have marked major advances in our understanding of the world. Just consider the famous example of Galileo’s thought ...

NASA and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) are collaborating on the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE), which seeks to demonstrate the viability of providing positioning, navigation and timing ...