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 ...

Ever since Isaac Newton and the falling apple, surprises have often pushed physics forward.Many truths about the universe we live in and the particles that make up ourselves and the world around ...

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

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 ...

THE greatest generalisation in the early history of physical science was made late in the seventeenth century by Sir Isaac Newton when he enunciated the laws of motion and deduced from them the ...

Isaac Newton became one of history’s most important scientists - all thanks, as legend has it, to an apple falling from a tree. But beyond the famous anecdote is the story of a polymath who ...

After more than 300 years, Newton’s law of gravitation is still palpable at a revolutionary Cambridge distillery. On a warm January afternoon, I pedalled down cobblestone streets in Cambridge ...