It doesn’t look like much—a slender five-foot wand topped by the barest wisp of dried leaf—but it is in fact a descendant of one of the world’s most famous trees—the apple tree that inspired Isaac ...

The hyper-rational world of science has always made a bit of room to accommodate legend and William & Mary will soon be home to a living piece of one of the most well-known scientific legends: a ...

Sir Isaac Newton's famous apple tree is about to leave gravity behind. Flying aboard space shuttle Atlantis next week will be a 4-inch sliver of the tree from which an apple fell nearly 350 years ago ...

“Newton’s Apple Tree” in Cambridge University Botanic Garden (CUBG) was a direct descendent of an apple tree in the garden of Woolsthorpe Manor, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, which is said to have ...

Archaeologists have discovered Isaac Newton’s childhood home near the location of iconic apple tree that resulted in the birth of the Theory of Gravity in the 17th century. The remnants of the 17th ...

A few weeks ago I wrote about famous science urban legends. I left one out, because I thought it was too obviously a myth to be worth putting on the list. Turns out ...

British archaeologists recently found the remnants of a 17th-century house where Isaac Newton’s mother lived – not far from the site of his famous apple tree. The National Trust announced in a recent ...

This week’s puzzle is not about gravity, though you’d be excused for suspecting as much. After all, when most people read “Isaac Newton” and “tree” in the same sentence, they think also of falling ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station have given azero gravity tribute to famed 17th century scientist Sir Isaac Newton in honorof his pioneering work to understand the laws of gravity ? which ...

Sir Isaac Newton famously formulated his theory of gravity while watching an apple fall from a tree. Now a bit of that tree is going into zero gravity. The space shuttle launching Friday will carry a ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Newton and the Apple Tree Syuji Asanaga and his childhood friend Yotsuko Utakane, while tracking down Syuji’s missing grandfather, unexpectedly end up ...