The astrophysicist reminds that Christmas Day commemorated the birth of a child who would change the world: Isaac Newton. Not everyone is impressed. DeGrasse Tyson offends some with Isaac Newton ...

By June 1665, the plague was burning through England. A young University of Cambridge student, Isaac Newton, ... Newton was a sickly child and not expected to live.

When he was in his first year at Cambridge, he kept a debtor’s ledger of the sins that he’d committed as a child. Read about the most shameful acts and violent past of young Isaac Newton. 10.

Historian of science Bill Newman says that Isaac Newton's alchemical notebooks are like a gigantic jigsaw puzzle. But this puzzle is no child's play—more like an enigma wrapped in a mystery ...

The very same tree from which Isaac Newton came up with the law of gravity is still alive and thriving in Woolsthorpe Manor, England, in Newton’s family home and where he spent his childhood.