Jesus Christ remains the world's most influential figure over 2,000 years after he walked the earth, according to new research. Academics at U.S. university MIT used data gathered from online ...

The last major private repository of manuscripts and correspondence by Isaac Newton and his circle was held in the extraordinary library at Shirburn Castle in Oxfordshire, UK, seat of the earls of ...

AT last we have an adequate biography of Newton. Prof. More would not wish us to say it was perfect-that would have been impossible-but he has spent seven years reading the documents and considering ...

Manuscript of 1752 biography of Isaac Newton, which recounts how a falling apple led him to the theory of gravity, is available on U.K.'s Royal Society Web site. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

Did Sir Isaac Newton invent social media or was it a group of medieval harness-polishers? In the 12 th century, craftsmen of various types began to loosely (and then formally) affiliate themselves ...

DICK:Today we're going to introduce you to one of the greatest scientists ever to live. DOM:A genius who helped uncover the invisible force that controls not only how everything in the world moves but ...

The great British scientists, who have transformed our thinking about the universe and our place within it, owe much of their success to one incredible idea: the scientific method. It’s the bedrock of ...