July 5, 1687 - Sir Isaac Newton publishes the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Known to posterity as the Principia, this three-volume work is where Newton laid out his three laws ... Read More

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson at the 2005 NASA Advisory Council in Washington, DC. It's been a busy couple of weeks for astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. First, on June 25, Dr. ... Read More

A little over a month ago, a 1954 letter from Albert Einstein to philosopher Eric Gutkind sold at auction for quite a lot of money - 170,000 pounds ($404,000 US ... Read More

June 26, 1824 - British mathematician, engineer, and physicist William Thomas, 1st Baron Kelvin ("Lord Kelvin"), was born. He did much work in electricity and thermodynamics, devising a scale of ... Read More

I get a lot of notices and one that recently came my way was the announcement that the website Engineering.com has begun allowing their members to have blogs through their ... Read More

Critics of CERN's new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project have very serious concerns - basically, they are worried that the attempt to re-create energies near those of the big bang ... Read More

June 21, 1781 - French mathematician and physicist Simeon-Denis Poisson is born. Poissons mathematical achievements were instrumental in the development of the mathematics related to electromagnetic field equations by Gauss, ... Read More

With the internet, summer has become an opportunity to get a jumpstart on fall coursework. Though not necessarily how every single student would want to spend their free time, for ... Read More

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland have created a molecule called a macrocycle, which can eat the uranium ion uranyl from spent nuclear fuel rods. Why is ... Read More

June 14, 1736 - French physicist Charles Augustin de Coulomb is born. Coulomb's best known for discovery of Coulomb's law, defining the force of electrostatic attraction and repulsion. The SI ... Read More

The Discovery Channel will be beginning a show tonight, June 8, at 9:00 pm Eastern/Pacific. The show, When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions, is "the story of mankind's ... Read More

I just came across an intriguing list of scientists killed or injured by their experiments, including such luminaries as Marie Curie (who died of radiation poisoning) and Galileo Galilei (who ... Read More

June 4, 780 B.C. - The first recorded solar eclipse is observed in China. June 4, 1783 - The Montgolfier brothers give the first public demonstration of their hot air balloon, ... Read More