David DiLaura, an emeritus professor at the University of Colorado, was working on his comprehensive bibliography listing every significant scientific volume on optics when he made an unexpected ...

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 ...

Twenty-odd years before Newton stated the three laws of motion, he conducted a simple, breakthrough prism experiment. He poked a hole through his window shade, allowing a single beam of light to shine ...

The scientific rigor of Isaac Newton transformed physics, optics, and even Britain’s money and law, culminating in the Great Recoinage.

While many people around the world are opening presents and gathering with family as part of honoring of the birth of baby Jesus, some science enthusiasts are also celebrating another kind of luminary ...

Isaac Newton (left) and a Bellarmine Jug piece with an embossed face that was discovered at the site of his mother’s home Newton: © National Trust. Jug piece ...