From the very tree where an apple once inspired Isaac Newton to formulate his theory of gravity to the Bodhi tree under which Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment, these iconic trees continue to ...

The Lincolnshire home of scientist Sir Isaac Newton is to reopen to the public after its annual winter conservation work. He ...

He was sitting in the orchard at Woolsthorpe, thinking deep thoughts, when an apple fell from a tree. And all at once ... story of the life and ideas of Isaac Newton, who was born on Christmas ...

A chilling letter from Isaac Newton has revealed a prediction for the end of the world and you'd best brace yourself because ...

A sapling of Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree has been planted in Argentina's Science Park as part of the festivities marking the April 10 Researcher's Day held by the National Council for Scientific ...

The apple that fell from the tree in front of Sir Isaac Newton’s childhood home, Woolsthorpe Manor, did not, as myth suggests, smack the great man on the head. It landed, as apples do ...

Sir Isaac Newton was famously sitting under an apple tree, when a falling apple inspired his revolutionary theories about gravity. Today, seeds from that very same apple tree have been collected and ...

Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe ... Newton remembered that he had been sitting beneath an apple tree at his family home of Woolsthorpe, and a falling apple had prompted ...

In 1666, Newton saw an apple fall from a tree. This started 20 years of thinking that led to the development of his Theory of Universal Gravitation. Although the famous story about Newton seeing ...