Isaac Newton was a legendary scientist best known for establishing the laws of gravity. But in his free time, he dabbled in experiments worthy of Voldemort. Like the “Harry Potter” villain ...

A t first, Isaac Newton resisted temptation. He held on to the South Sea shares he already owned but did not swap any of his roughly £19,000 in government securities for more company stock.

Sir Isaac Newton letter from 1704 predicts when world will end – and it’s not far away. As well as formulating the laws of gravity, Sir Isaac Newton was a theologian. Bryony Gooch.

In his book, "The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society and the Birth of the Modern World," which comes out Tuesday, Edward Dolnick centers in on the original geniuses' like Isaac ...

Isaac Newton is renowned for renovating the foundations of mathematics, optics, and mechanics in the 17th century.. What you may not know is that the famed British mathematician also aimed to overturn ...

In a recent column on the effort to predict stock-market behavior with principles from geophysics, I cited the losses -- reputed to exceed $3.6 million in today’s money -- that Sir Isaac Newton ...

Sir Isaac Newton was a towering genius in the history of science, he knew he was a genius, and he didn’t like wasting his time. Born on Dec. 25, 1642, the great English physicist and ...

One of Isaac Newton's 17th-century alchemy manuscripts, buried in a private collection for decades, reveals his recipe for a material thought to be a step toward concocting the magical philosopher ...