The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving some mathematical graffiti into Dublin's Broome Bridge in 1843.

The scientific rigor of Isaac Newton transformed physics, optics, and even Britain’s money and law, culminating in the Great Recoinage.

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Astronomy enthusiasts will have a chance to enjoy a glimpse of the sky tonight, Sunday through Monday. Saturn, the ringed ...

A group of bumblebee catfish was caught on video climbing waterfalls up to four metres high, an unprecedented phenomenon that surprised researchers and raises new questions about t ...

From Newton’s falling apple to Einstein’s curved spacetime, our understanding of gravity has come a long way, yet this ...