For nearly 300 years, Isaac Newton’s first law of motion has been one of the most fundamental principles in physics. But a new study suggests that a small mistranslation in its original English ...

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

Newton's laws of motion are everywhere around you, explaining everything from why you feel pushed back in your seat when a ...

Stargazer: James Binney’s research has focused on the structure, dynamics and formation of galaxies. (Courtesy: James Binney) The astrophysicist James Binney from the University of Oxford has won the ...

In the corridors of the Royal Mint, where gold flowed like water into coin molds, Isaac Newton—the legendary scientist who ...

Isaac Newton, World's Most Famous Alchemist ... Today revered as the father of modern physics and the inventor of calculus, Newton was describing a recipe for the Philosophers’ Stone, a legendary ...

The Sphere is a modern realization of an old idea for an 18th-century monument to perhaps the greatest physicist of all time – Isaac Newton – whose analytical approach was influential even beyond ...

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.