Science has never been the pristine, market-free ideal many imagine. It has always lived – sometimes uneasily – within a ...

As previously reported, Leonardo produced more than 13,000 pages in his notebooks (later gathered into codices), less than a ...

Conduction is the direct flow of heat from your warm body into your colder surroundings. In winter, all that heat escaping ...

The quote of the day belongs to Isaac Newton, the scientist whose work shaped the foundations of modern physics. His words, ...

Born Dec. 25, 1642, Isaac Newton is likely best known for his conception of the theory of gravity. But there were many more ...

Part of the appeal of the Boyle myth may be that it promised a clean break: a waymark at which alchemy was cast aside and chemistry took over. But such changes rarely if ever happen in science, and ...

The greatest scientific contributions in human history are attributed to the British scientist Isaac Newton (1643– 1727), who ...

In part two of the interview marking the 100th anniversary of quantum mechanics, ETH Professor Klaus Ensslin explains why ...

Isaac Newton did not just invent calculus and rewrite physics, he also tried to calculate the end of the world with the same ...

“No Gravity": Astronauts experience zero-g or weightlessness. The human beings aboard the ISS grow a bit taller over time as ...

People often see science as a world apart: cool, rational and untouched by persuasion or performance. In this view, ...