Over 300 years ago, English physicist Sir Issac Newton explained in his third law of motion that for every action in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction. That law also describes well ...

Newton’s third law became my North Star. In 1687, when Newton published his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, also known as the Principia, he was, of course, referring to inanimate objects ...

How sperm swim free and clear of Newton’s third law Most examples of spermatozoa in the animal kingdom consist of two separate functionally distinct regions enclosed in a plasma membrane.

That rocket shoots out exhaust when it leaves the launch pad. That exhaust is shooting towards the launchpad. This is where Isaac Newton's third law of motion comes into action. This law says that ...