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 ...

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Isaac Newton was an English polymath who worked in many areas, such as math, physics, astronomy, alchemy, theology, writing, and inventing. His work changed the way people thought about the universe ...

Deborah Jin is this year's winner of the Isaac Newton Medal In 1999 Jin and her then PhD student Brian DeMarco were the first researchers to cool a gas of fermionic atoms so low that the effects of ...

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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 ...