A year after writing his famous note to Robert Hooke stating that “if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants,” Isaac Newton sent a far more secretive, and far more ...

A letter from the renowned English scientist Sir Isaac Newton predicted when the world would end as we know it. The warning, scrawled above a maths calculation on a letter slip in 1704, says Earth ...

A subtle mistranslation of Isaac Newton’s first law of motion that flew under the radar for three centuries is giving new insight into what the pioneering natural philosopher was thinking when ...

For the physicist, the end of the world will come in the year 2060, that is, in this 21st century. There would only be 37 years left to live, if we take into account the writing he left in 1704 ...

Sir Issac Newton, best known for formulating the laws of motion and gravity, wrote about his revolutionary findings using homemade ink that had beer as a key ingredient, a new study has claimed.

Was the scientist Isaac Newton a grandfather of the American Revolution? When Newton published his revolutionary new theories of gravity and motion way back in 1687, I’m sure he didn’t ...

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 ...

In this extract from the new book Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science, science writer Philip Ball explains how Isaac Newton transformed our understanding of light.

When Newton published his revolutionary new theories of gravity and motion way back in 1687, I’m sure he didn’t How Isaac Newton’s science inspired the American Revolution Skip to main ...