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

GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ, MATHEMATICIAN: When Isaac first explained his theory of gravity to me, I remember being impressed. Not by the theory, which, as far as I could tell, was basically that stuff falls ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It's a tale as old as time itself: Isaac Newton sat under a tree, got hit in the head with an apple and came up with the theories of gravity and motion. So, the story itself may ...

From the fall of an apple to the glow of the farthest known star, gravity quietly choreographs almost everything that happens ...

While many people around the world are opening presents and gathering with family as part of honoring of the birth of baby Jesus, some science enthusiasts are also celebrating another kind of luminary ...

A glance at the October issue of Discover: Could Isaac Newton have been wrong? Some scientists think there’s something wrong with the theory of gravity, writes Tim Folger, a contributing editor at the ...

What could be more familiar than gravity? Drop something and gravity pulls it to the floor, right? And in school we learn that gravity is what guides the moon in orbit around Earth, and Earth in its ...

Theodore K. Rabb, a professor of history at Princeton University, is the author, most recently, of "Renaissance Lives: Portraits of an Age." Isaac NEWTON almost always appeared near the top of the ...