Calculus was not born in a classroom, it was born in a fight. Isaac Newton developed fluxions in private during the plague ...

ABSTRACT: We suggest that there should be a minimum electromagnetic radiation frequency in the Hubble sphere and that this seems to be directly linked to the Hawking Temperature and our recent ...

I wasn’t born a leader. I wanted to be a follower. From an early age, I looked for the diamonds in the rough: the few people who, through words and deeds, might inspire me to be a better person. I ...

OVER the last four centuries, the physical sciences have undergone a metamorphosis marked by breath-taking discoveries and the evolution of sophisticated the­­­ories about the nature of reality. From ...

Jason Yip explains the significance and uniqueness of the Shu Li Ge Zhi (數理格致) manuscript by Li Shanlan (李善蘭), one of the earliest Chinese translations of Newton’s work, archived in the SOAS Special ...

ABSTRACT: The singularity at distance r → 0 at the center of a spherically symmetric non-rotating, uncharged mass of radius R, is considered here. Under inverse square law force, the Schwarzschild ...

Chiara Mingarelli, a physicist with a passion for science communication, devotes much of her professional time to deciphering the furtive chirps of gravitational waves from the far reaches of the ...

In 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published his magnum opus, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which effectively synthesized his theories on motion, velocity, and universal gravitation. In terms of ...

Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet – or more simply Émilie du Châtelet – was born on December 17, 1706 in Paris, France into a family of lesser nobility. From a young age, ...

One of the most valuable scientific documents in history changed hands this week, when an autographed Isaac Newton manuscript of revisions to three sections of the first edition of the Philosophiae ...