Tag: newton
Sir Isaac Newton: The scientist born on Christmas day (or was he?)
Corbis There are quite a few things Sir Isaac Newton is known for, including his experiments with prisms and light,…
Were Newton’s most productive years really during the Great Plague of London?
FlipFact of the Day: The year was 1665, and the Great Plague of London had just begun to devastate England. By…
How to be more ‘attractive’ on Valentine’s Day, according to science
Feeling lonely this Valentine’s Day? Attract the right romantic energy with a physics lesson from an unlikely love guru: Isaac…
7 reasons why we know Earth is NOT flat
If you can read this article, there’s a pretty decent chance that you’re reading it somewhere on Earth — that…
