What exactly is gravity, and how does it work? From Newton’s early groundbreaking discoveries to Einstein’s revolutionary theory of relativity, gravity has always been one of the most fascinating ...

Isaac Newton's law of gravity, which was made public in 1687, is being questioned as physicists try and define our universe; theories about dark matter and even more mysterious dark energy have ...

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 ...

Isaac Newton is perhaps the foundational archetype of a lone genius: pairing astonishing intelligence with abysmal interpersonal skills. "If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be ...

Isaac Newton was not known for his generosity of spirit, and his disdain for his rivals was legendary. But in one letter to his competitor Gottfried Leibniz, now known as the Epistola Posterior, ...

In 2016, a Latin first edition of Newton’s “Principia Mathematica” was sold at Christie’s in New York for $3.7 million to an undisclosed buyer, making it the most expensive scientific book ...

The copy of Isaac Newton's seminal treatise Opticks that he had purchased some 20 years before turned out to be from Newton's own personal library, believed lost for many decades.

A Toast to Newton and a Long-Lived 'Principia' Dibner Institute for History of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology is giving Isaac Newton a party to celebrate publication ...

Newton’s New Vision “Isaac’s Eye,” by Lucas Hnath, imagines Isaac Newton as an ambitious young man hoping to win admission to the Royal Society. By Charles Isherwood Snapshot ...