Occasionally, science museums can stimulate new science. Inspired by an exhibit on an optical experiment performed by Isaac Newton, physicists have taken the first X-ray snapshot of a microscopic ...

Most people think of Sir Isaac Newton as the father of gravity. But for some physicists Newton's "dusty mirror" experiment has served as a launching pad for them to keenly watch the X-ray induced ...

Twenty-odd years before Newton stated the three laws of motion, he conducted a simple, breakthrough prism experiment. He poked a hole through his window shade, allowing a single beam of light to shine ...

Isaac Newton was the first to demonstrate through his famous prism experiments that color is intrinsic to light. As part of those experiments, he also divvied up the spectrum in his own idiosyncratic ...

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. So begins the creation story from the King James Book of Genesis, verse 3. Light begins with stars, so God might just as well have said let there ...

A GLASS prism, said to have been the property of Isaac Newton, is on exhibition in the British Museum, Medieval Collections Room, Bay XVI. It was presented in 1927 by the Rev. H. T. Inman of Grantham, ...