Among Newton's odd experiments were staring at a solar eclipse and wedging a needle behind his eyeball. NY Post composite/Mike Guillen Isaac Newton was a legendary scientist best known for ...

Great question, Desiree. Let me start with a story about the scientist Isaac Newton. About 350 years ago, he was thinking a lot about light, and what it is made of. He held a prism up to the light and ...

Occasionally, science museums can stimulate new science. Inspired by an exhibit on an optical experiment performed by Isaac Newton, physicists have taken the first X-ray snapshot of a microscopic ...

Have you ever noticed the colors of the rainbow or the colors that sometimes appear on the wall when light passes through a glass of water? In 1666, Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) conducted a series of ...

IT is reported from Italy that three optical prisms formerly belonging to Sir Isaac Newton have now found a permanent resting place in the Museum of Treviso. The prisms in question were originally in ...

Towering thinker Sir Isaac Newton carved a now-barely visible doodle of a windmill into a stone wall in his childhood home, according to a news release from the National Trust. The drawing was ...