Discover the Quote of the Day by Isaac Newton, learn about his life, famous quotes, and how his words continue to inspire ...

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 ...

Isaac Newton is renowned for renovating the foundations of mathematics, optics, and mechanics in the 17th century. What you may not know is that the famed British mathematician also aimed to overturn ...

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 ...

THIS is an excellently written biography of the genius Sir Isaac Newton. It has popular appeal in mind and so its accounts of his experiments and discoveries are both accurate and understandable, and ...

Handwritten notes by Isaac Newton on the Great Pyramid of Egypt sold for £378,000 ($511,000) at an auction earlier in December. The papers, from around the 1680s, had been almost completely destroyed ...

Sir Isaac Newton — the 17th-century scientist, mathematician and father of physics? Yeah, you know him. But you may not know Newton was super into alchemy, a medieval "science" that preceded chemistry ...

The physicist follows Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking into the Lucasian chair of mathematics at the University of Cambridge. Congratulations. How did it feel when you heard the news? I was very ...

If you asked people strolling down Fifth Avenue to name a genius, most would probably cite Albert Einstein. "Ask them to name another one, it would be (Isaac) Newton," said Mordechai Feingold, curator ...

We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 6,093,882-week series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: Dean Drive What it’s about: Newton’s Third Law Of Motion states that for every action, there is ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The ashes of world famous physicist Steven ...