Historian of science Bill Newman says that Isaac Newton's alchemical notebooks are like a gigantic jigsaw puzzle. But as you'll see as you peruse the 300-year-old manuscript at left, this puzzle i ...

ISAAC NEWTON: Yo, yo, yo, I'm Isaac Newton and the ... the biggest discovery of science so far. I've just worked out, wait for it, gravity. Boom-ya! In fact, I'm that famous that I'll be getting ...

Newton shared both obsessions. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle Companies. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the NOVA Science Trust, the Corporation for Public ...

SIR ISAAC NEWTON:Aaahh. DOM:'Newton was born in 1643, when the laws of nature and the universe were a big mystery. It was the early days of modern science.' DICK:'Newton made many advances in our ...

Sir Isaac Newton was famously sitting under an apple tree, when a falling apple inspired his revolutionary theories about gravity. Today, seeds from that very same apple tree have been collected and ...

New Scientist once described Isaac Newton as “the supreme genius and most enigmatic character in the history of science.” His three greatest discoveries — the theory of universal gravitation ...

Newton’s entanglement with the slave trade may tarnish the pedestal upon which he stands, but scholars argue it doesn’t erase his contributions to science. “I don’t think this should ...