In 1929, an astronomer named Edwin Hubble stood atop Mount Wilson in California, peering into the night sky. What he s ...

These scientists may be lesser known than Einstein and Newton, but they made giant contributions to science, including astronomy, physics, chemistry and medicine. Isaac Newton once wrote, "If I have ...

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History's greatest minds, including Einstein and Curie, defied conventional study methods, embracing self-directed learning ...

Astronomers have found a remarkable pair of stars that may finally prove a long-debated theory. Described in the journal ...

News about Isaac Newton, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

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Isaac Newton had been a student at Trinity College in Cambridge when it closed its doors as a precaution against the bubonic plague. The disease killed an estimated 100,000 people in London in 1665 ...

Isaac Newton is perhaps the foundational archetype of a lone genius: pairing astonishing intelligence with abysmal interpersonal skills. "If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be ...

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Newton’s Rainbow: The Revolutionary Discoveries of a Young Scientist Kathryn Lasky, illus. by Kevin Hawkes. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-374-35513-5 ...