Most people probably know the portion of Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion that describes inertia: “objects at rest tend to ...

Archaeologists have found everyday objects at the site where the mother of Isaac Newton lived. The house was near Newton's ...

The modern world as we know it simply would not exist if not for the mind of Sir Isaac Newton. His synthesis of differential calculus and pioneering research on the nature of gravity and light are ...

From Newton’s falling apple to Einstein’s curved spacetime, our understanding of gravity has come a long way, yet this ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sir Isaac Newton, the acclaimed physicist, mathematician, and astronomer, may be one of the most ...

Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (known by its shortened Latin name, the Principia) is a massive, three-volume 17th-century treatise that is one of the most influential ...

British archaeologists recently found the remnants of a 17th-century house where Isaac Newton’s mother lived – not far from ...

Archaeologists found items like tableware and other artifacts that might have belonged to Isaac Newton’s mother, Hannah ...

Isaac Newton’s 17th century book, the Principia, gave the famed English scientist a reputation: “[T]here goes the man that writt a book that neither he nor any body else understands,” a Cambridge ...

Stocks still haven’t returned to their last peak, and our columnist is in the camp that says this isn’t a bull market yet. But he’s buying stock anyway. By Jeff Sommer The discovery suggests that ...

He’s one of history’s greatest thinkers, but while Sir Isaac Newton changed our understanding of the universe, he had some pretty bonkers ideas in his time, too. Unpublished notes penned by the ...