When Isaac Newton inscribed onto parchment his now-famed laws of motion in 1687, he could have only hoped we'd be discussing them three centuries later. Writing in Latin, Newton outlined three ...

In 1685, Sir Isaac Newton — a genius physicist with long, curly, white hair — set out to mathematically prove how planets moved through space and revolved around the sun. Over a period of 18 months, ...

Keep on moving – or not! Explore Newton’s First Law of Motion! Keep on moving – or not! Explore Newton’s First Law of Motion! Dr. Rob and the Crew use bowling balls, beads, and bottles to investigate ...

For hundreds of years, we have been told what Newton’s First Law of Motion supposedly says, but recently a paper published in Philosophy of Science (preprint) by [Daniel Hoek] argues that it is based ...

There’s plenty of chatter and research surrounding the so-called “laws” of productivity, but even the laws we use to govern other areas of our lives can be applicable when there are things that need ...

For nearly 300 years, Isaac Newton’s first law of motion has been one of the most fundamental principles in physics. But a ...

Conservation of energy isn’t just a good idea: It is the law. In particular, it is the first law of thermodynamics. But, apparently, a lot of people don’t really get that because history is replete ...

Physicists at West Virginia University have made a breakthrough on an age-old limitation of the first law of thermodynamics. West Virginia University physicists have made a breakthrough on an age-old ...