The copy of Isaac Newton 's seminal treatise Opticks that he had purchased some 20 years before turned out to be from Newton's own personal library, believed lost for many decades.

Isaac Newton is renowned for renovating the foundations of mathematics, optics, and mechanics in the 17th century. What you may not know is that the famed British mathematician also aimed to overturn ...

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 penned in 1704.

TeraView, the Cambridge, UK-based company that has pioneered terahertz technology and solutions, has announced that Professor Sir Michael Pepper, its co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, has been ...

Goodbye to color Designers of shorter telescopes still faced the problem of chromatic aberrations, though—that is, until Isaac Newton solved it.

Newton’s first law of motion says that particles move in straight lines unless influenced by a force but a new experiment shows that the quantum version of that assumption fails for quantum ...

The WHT is part of the Isaac Newton group (ING) of telescopes run by a collaboration of researchers in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Spain. Author Jacqueline Hewett is news reporter on ...

A search has uncovered over 300 copies of Isaac Newton’s famous 17th century book, the Principia, revealing a broader readership than assumed.

A pristine personal copy of Isaac Newton’s book "Opticks" that was recently found after going missing for a century is going up for auction. While organizing his collection, DiLaura, a professor ...

Ultrafast laser pioneer Paul Corkum has won the London-based Institute of Physics’ (IOP) highest accolade, the Isaac Newton Medal and Prize, for 2018. The University of Ottawa, Canada, professor - ...

Historical detectives discover more first editions of Isaac Newton’s Principia New census more than doubles count of known surviving copies—and there could be more.