Michael Faraday concluded from experiments that the magnetic field produced by an electromagnet induced a current in the second circuit. This is the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction. […]
Prior to Hans Oersted, electricity and magnetism were viewed as two completely separate phenomena. Oersted unified this work by showing that one phenomenon was infinitely linked to the other. […]
The legend is that Fleming discovered the first antibiotic, penicillin, by accident. Well that’s actually half true. The discovery of antibiotics is a long story with all sorts of twists and turns. […]
Gravity force is a grand concept discovered by Isaac Newton. It helped scientists calculate the mass of the Earth and the Moon. It also led to a more conceptual idea: the clockwork universe. […]
Isaac Newton was one of the greatest mathematicians/physicists that came up with the concept of gravity and explained it through an equation. It was a long journey for him to comprehend why orbiting masses don’t fall like an apple falls off a tree. […]
Capital G stands for the gravitational force in the gravity equation. But it lacked the numerical value, hence, many scientists tried to determine this G, and they were somewhat successful. […]
Sir Isaac Newton had a difficult childhood. He was more interested in academics than in agriculture. However, Newton went on to make four very important contributions during the plague years. […]
Newton classified physical motion into two different categories uniform and non-uniform motion, thus helping him formulate the three laws of motion. […]
It is difficult to overstate the influence of Newton on the progress of scientific understanding. He saw the cosmos in an entirely new way, and he changed the way science is viewed. […]
Nicolaus Copernicus developed a Sun-centered theory which explained the motion of the planets. Galileo’s public support for the theory led to his trial for heresy. […]
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