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 ...

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

Sir Isaac Newton, who made numerous pioneering discoveries in physics and mathematics, believed that the world as we know it will end in 2060. That might have seemed like a long way off when he ...

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 ...

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 ...