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A curious thing happened to Isaac Newton on the way to a grand new exhibition at the New York Public Library, “The Newtonian Moment: Science and the Making of Modern Culture.” He seems to have gone ...

What if gravity repelled instead of attracted? This video explores how repulsive gravity could have shaped the history of the universe. Gravity was traditionally defined by Isaac Newton’s Law of ...

Theodore K. Rabb, a professor of history at Princeton University, is the author, most recently, of "Renaissance Lives: Portraits of an Age." Isaac NEWTON almost always appeared near the top of the ...

When Newton first proposed the law of universal gravitation, it marked the very first time that we realized the same rule governing how objects fell on Earth also governed how they moved and attracted ...

Newton's gravity, that old classical warhorse, is well established on scales as large as the Solar System. The latest experimental confirmation of its validity is tiny in scale, but big in ...

There was a secret inside the envelope in the hands of Stephan Schlamminger, one of the world’s leading experts in experimental tests of gravity. He appeared to be on the verge of opening the envelope ...

It could rock the very foundations of modern science. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Just four numbers underpin the laws of ...