Two physicists and a biologist were discussing a fruit lying beneath one of William & Mary’s Isaac Newton trees. One of the physicists asked the question: What caused that apple to fall? “Abscission,” ...

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 ...

A clone of the original apple tree that dropped an apple on the head of Sir Isaac Newton has fallen down in Cambridge Botanic Garden after record winds have battered the UK during Storm Eunice. The ...

The seeds for the idea were planted when a student picked up an apple. The fruit had fallen from a special tree – a clone of the apple tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity, ...

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 ...

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 ...

People can own a piece of Isaac Newton's home as part of a conservation project. It is claimed the scientist, born at ...

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 ...

Scientists, apparently, are just as sentimental as the rest of us. Tufts University announced this week that cosmologist Alex Vilenkin hopes to plant an apple tree this Fall whose lineage goes back to ...