(Mechanics developed into a branch of physical science that deals with energy and forces and their effect on bodies.). Newton said shortly before his death that it was seeing an apple fall in his ...

Newton's laws enabled the Industrial Revolution. Now AI is predicting protein structures faster than traditional lab methods.

By flinging gravity across the void, Isaac Newton united physics and astronomy in a single science of matter in motion. When we step back and look at Newton's universe from afar, what is it ...

Probably the most celebrated controversy in all of the history of science was that between Newton and Leibniz over the invention of the calculus. The argument ranged far beyond a mere priority dispute ...

Professor Westfall treats all aspects of Newton's career, but his account centres on a full description of Newton's achievements in science. Thus the core of the work describes the development of the ...

SIR ISAAC NEWTON:Aaahh. DOM:'Newton was born in 1643, when the laws of nature and the universe were a big mystery. It was the early days of modern science.' DICK:'Newton made many advances in our ...

The story of how Newton came up with his gravitational theory is one of the most familiar in the history of science. He was sitting in the orchard at Woolsthorpe, thinking deep thoughts ...

New Scientist once described Isaac Newton as “the supreme genius and most enigmatic character in the history of science.” His three greatest discoveries — the theory of universal gravitation ...