The story of Isaac Newton's life. He discovered gravity, and the laws of motion that underpin much of modern physics. Yet he ...

In a column in November, “Isaac Newton Learned About Financial Gravity the Hard Way,” I looked at a new study of the investing career of the great physicist. The great scientist was a hapless investor ...

It’s not the end of the world… yet. 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 ...

Today, we celebrate the birthday of one of the most important human beings to walk the face of the Earth. On this day, in 1642, Sir Isaac Newton was born. He would be 371. Newton was a physicist and ...

Manuscript of 1752 biography of Isaac Newton, which recounts how a falling apple led him to the theory of gravity, is available on U.K.'s Royal Society Web site. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

A portrait of scientist Isaac Newton, who developed a toad vomit–based cure for the bubonic plague Godfrey Kneller via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 If someone told you that Sir Isaac ...

Isaac Newton was in his early 20s when the Great Plague of London hit. He wasn’t a “Sir” yet, didn’t have that big formal wig. He was just another college student at Trinity College, Cambridge. It ...

AT last we have an adequate biography of Newton. Prof. More would not wish us to say it was perfect-that would have been impossible-but he has spent seven years reading the documents and considering ...