NEWTON — The Akamai Foundation has given the city's public schools a $75,000 grant to help boost the Calculus Project, a district-wide program aimed at narrowing the achievement gap for low-income ...

August 16, 2007 New research suggests that a key aspect of the calculus, commonly attributed to Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz in the late 1600s, may in fact have been discovered more than ...

Cam Newton officially signed with the Patriots on Wednesday, and he’s now at work studying the playbook. Newton posted on Instagram a picture of himself studying his new team’s playbook, and he wrote ...

Work from home is great, right? Boss isn’t around to oversee, colleagues aren’t around to annoy, you can watch Netflix on the side, you can totally not bathe, not brush. Etc, etc, etc. This is what it ...

Last week at the Newton Blog, my colleague Ross Pomeroy discussed a famous puzzle known as one of Zeno's Paradoxes. He presented the resolution of the problem of fitting infinitely many things into a ...

Stuck in a mind numbing traffic jam, a la Bengaluru, I could not help but think how all of this came to being. Even a hundred years ago it was unthinkable that the roads would be chock full of self ...

Newton’s shell theorem asserts that the net gravitational force between a point particle and a sphere with uniform mass density is the same as the force in the situation where the sphere is replaced ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When little baby Isaac was born in a Lilliputian English village, premature and small enough to ...

Last week at the Newton Blog, my colleague Ross Pomeroy discussed a famous puzzle known as one of Zeno's Paradoxes. He presented the resolution of the problem of fitting infinitely many things into a ...