A lot of nonfiction for kids in upper elementary and middle school is what I think of as "book report books." They're packed with facts, but not presented in a way that makes them very interesting.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published his groundbreaking book, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, which described his ...

Sir Isaac Newton believed that most events could be explained through mathematics. His third law of motion is being demonstrated by the recent rise in gas prices. For anyone who may have forgotten ...

Light from a distant galaxy becomes warped as it travels through space-time gravitationally curving around a foreground ...

It seems unlikely that we will ever lose our fascination for the man whom David Berlinski calls “the largest figure in the history of Western science” and the author of “the greatest of scientific ...

Newton’s Law of Gravity just survived its biggest cosmic test. Scientists studied nearly 686,000 galaxies spread across 7 ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A conservationist in France haas uncovered a highly valuable first edition copy of the great physicist Isaac Newton's ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

In 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published his groundbreaking book, which described the three laws of motion and redefined the way the world looked at physics and science. These laws also work well as an ...