A rare 50p coin is worth more than 90 times its face value, as it has a key characteristic or 'error' and has significantly changed Queen Elizabeth's face ...

RENSSELAER — Eight actors had eight minutes each to portray eight prominent figures buried at Weston Cemetery in the eighth ...

"All but three of the medals here shown are from the collection of ... David Eugene Smith ... and the accompanying descriptions have been prepared by him." page 3. "The Athenaeum Press" --Verso of ...

Confession time! While the world was dazzled by the grandeur of King Charles III’s Coronation with its sparkling crowns, ...

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

British archaeologists recently found the remnants of a 17th-century house where Isaac Newton’s mother lived, not far from the site of his famous apple tree. The National Trust announced in a recent ...

Archaeologists in the U.K. have uncovered a miscellany of everyday objects from the site of a house that was built for the mother of Isaac Newton in the 1650s. The house, which was demolished 200 ...

At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.

Introduction: A rational Christian -- A divine web -- A spiritual ant -- Infinity and the imagination -- From liberty to heresy -- Abominable men -- Prisca Newtoniana -- Methodising the apocalypse -- ...