Newton was more than just the brainiac behind gravity – turns out, he had a closet full of quirks. He was a bit of an ...

Sir Isaac Newton — the 17th-century scientist, mathematician and father of physics? Yeah, you know him. But you may not know Newton was super into alchemy, a medieval "science" that preceded ...

April 15 marks a day in science that inspired science fiction forever. It's also the anniversary of one of the best episodes of 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.' ...

Along with his love for science, Newton was also deeply religious. He based his hypothesis on the Book of Daniel--a biblical work of literature marked by its vivid imagery of a possible judgment day.

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.

When Sir Isaac Newton conceived his now-famed laws of motion in 1686, he sought to explain the relationship between a ...

Students from Alcovy and Newton high schools and Newton College & Career Academy (NCCA) took first place honors in the 2022-2023 NCSS High School District Science and Engineering Fair.

Legendary scientist Sir Isaac Newton, best known for establishing the law of gravity, predicted the world would cease to exist in the year 2060 in a letter he penned in 1704. It's not the end of ...

Isaac Newton, a prematurely born, posthumous son of a “wild, extravagant and weak” father, showed some aptitude for science in boyhood, went to Cambridge as a “poor scholar.” ...

Newton’s third law says that forces act in pairs. Which means if you push on something, it pushes it back on you. That’s why if you are sitting down and push on your desk, you will move.

Newton believed in apocalyptic visions in the Bible, where a battle of Armageddon would occur between “Gog and Magog” at the end of days. Newton probably only has himself to blame for talking ...