A student at Oxford University has discovered that a coronation medal was personally designed by Isaac Newton and includes a hidden political message. Postgraduate student Joseph Hone found a ...

GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ, MATHEMATICIAN: When Isaac first explained his theory of gravity to me, I remember being impressed. Not by the theory, which, as far as I could tell, was basically that stuff falls ...

A little known school of scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton according to new research. Dr George Gheverghese ...

A little known school of scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton – according to new research. Dr George Gheverghese ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Okay, geek that I am, I love this stuff. So I’m going to post long here. A school of ...

Sir Isaac Newton wondered what made objects fall to Earth. As the story goes, he was sitting under a certain kind of tree when the answer came to him: It was gravity that caused things to fall to ...

While many people around the world are opening presents and gathering with family as part of honoring of the birth of baby Jesus, some science enthusiasts are also celebrating another kind of luminary ...

Towering thinker Sir Isaac Newton carved a now-barely visible doodle of a windmill into a stone wall in his childhood home, according to a news release from the National Trust. The drawing was ...

A short history of Sir Isaac Newton, the mathematician and physicist that helped invent and explain some of the most fundamental laws of science. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...