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 ...

M-I-T is known world wide for the innovative thinkers and inventors who've passed through its classrooms. Those scholars have built upon the breakthroughs of the past ...

This week marks the 328th anniversary of the publication of “Principia,” Sir Isaac Newton’s groundbreaking work detailing, among other concepts, his laws of motions and universal gravitation. But ...

A scientific study published at the beginning of the month confirms that the understanding of gravity long predates Sir Isaac Newton's observation of a falling apple in the 1660s. An analysis of ...

CNN – Sir Isaac Newton, the polymath who discovered gravity in his early twenties and is credited with groundbreaking advances in calculus, physics and optics, took notes on a possible cure for the ...

Was one of the most immortal scientists in history also one of the world’s most mortal investors? In a recent column on the effort to predict stock-market behavior with principles from geophysics, I ...

If all goes as scheduled, Sir Isaac Newton’s apple tree—which inspired him to formulate his Universal Law of Gravitation—will launch to space next Friday at 2:20PM Eastern Time. Not the whole tree, ...