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 ...

Great question, Desiree. Let me start with a story about the scientist Isaac Newton. About 350 years ago, he was thinking a lot about light, and what it is made of. He held a prism up to the light and ...

IT is reported from Italy that three optical prisms formerly belonging to Sir Isaac Newton have now found a permanent resting place in the Museum of Treviso. The prisms in question were originally in ...

Understanding diffraction and dispersion is key to optical science, influencing technologies like spectroscopy, fiber optics, ...

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 ...

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, ...

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it’s fair to say the general public has rendered science plain. The accumulation of data in controlled situations isn’t, after all, loveliness embodied. But an ...

LIVERMORE, Calif. - Most people think of Sir Isaac Newton as the father of gravity. But for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicist Henry Chapman and his colleagues, Newton's “dusty mirror” ...