“If I have seen further,” declared the great 17th-century English scientist Sir Isaac Newton, “it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” This season marks Newton’s 375th birthday, and his ...

Sir Isaac Newton, a revolutionary scientist, is widely attributed with the quote, “Live your life as an exclamation rather ...

A collection of notes by the 17th century English mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton, that scientists thought had been lost forever, have been found. The notes on alchemy were originally ...

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 ...

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 ...

GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ, MATHEMATICIAN: When Isaac first explained his theory of gravity to me, I remember being impressed. Not by the theory, which, as far as I could tell, was basically that stuff falls ...

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 ...

For over three centuries, researchers have relied on a powerful algorithm developed by Isaac Newton to tackle complex problems in logistics, finance, computer vision, and even pure math. This simple ...

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 ...

Invite a guest lecturer to deliver a topical lecture or slide show. Topics to consider include historical scientists, such as Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, and Johannes Kepler; science in the ...