M-I-T is known world wide for the innovative thinkers and inventors who've passed through its classrooms. Those scholars have built upon the breakthroughs of the past ...

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 ...

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 ...

Born prematurely to a widowed mother on Christmas day, 1642, no one expected the tiny infant Isaac Newton to survive. Not only did he live, but Newton developed Calculus, invented the reflecting ...

Archaeologists have discovered Isaac Newton’s childhood home near the location of iconic apple tree that resulted in the birth of the Theory of Gravity in the 17th century. The remnants of the 17th ...

When Isaac Newton put forth his universal theory of gravitation in the 1680s, it was immediately recognized for what it was: the first incredibly successful, predictively powerful scientific theory ...

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 ...