Our physics expert picks his top-five equations, plus a scheme to supply US power needs with a bucket of baseballs. Thanks, ...

Newton was obsessive ... It's pretty much everything you do in the first year of an undergraduate degree in physics actually. On the face of it, it seems baffling that the scientific method ...

He was the greatest scientist of his day, perhaps of all time. But while Isaac Newton was busy discovering the universal law of gravitation, he was also searching out hidden meanings in the Bible ...

Science presenter Jon Chase explains Newton’s third law with the help of some skateboarders. The skateboarders stand on separate boards and then one of them pushes away from the other one ...

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 ...

Newton's claim is obvious. He created modern physics. His system described the behavior of the entire cosmos, and while others before him had invented grand schemes, Newton's was different.

Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics. To assess such a claim requires ... Today, the simple laws of motion as defined by Isaac Newton, for example, are known to the most modest ...