A huge bar of iron has been discovered lurking inside the iconic Ring Nebula. The structure is enormous, spanning hundreds of ...

Born Dec. 25, 1642, Isaac Newton is likely best known for his conception of the theory of gravity. But there were many more layers to him: In June 1665, with the plague burning through England, Newton ...

Sir Isaac Newton's chillingly rediscovered letter reveals his prediction that the world will end in 2060. and is founded on the Bible. A contemporary professor explains Sir Isaac Newton's dire ...

There is a Christmas episode of The Big Bang Theory where Sheldon Cooper does what Sheldon Cooper does best. He ruins a perfectly serviceable human tradition by insisting on historical accuracy.In ...

Isaac Newton (born December 25, 1642 [January 4, 1643, New Style], Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England—died March 20 [March 31], 1727, London) was an English physicist and mathematician who was the ...

In 18th-century France, science was a men’s club, and women were expected to be ornaments. One aristocrat, the Marquise ...

New instrument on William Herschel Telescope spots previously unknown strip of ionised iron atoms at the heart of Ring Nebula ...

A mysterious bar-shaped cloud of iron has been discovered inside the iconic Ring Nebula by a European team led by astronomers at UCL (University ...

Today in the history of astronomy, one of the brightest and most famous scientific minds of the modern era is born.

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There is a parlor game physics students play: Who was the greater genius? Galileo or Kepler? (Galileo.) Maxwell or Bohr? (Maxwell, but it's closer than you might think.) Hawking or Heisenberg? (A ...