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 ...

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'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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Albert Einstein said, "Fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in language comprehensible to everyone." Sure, individuals must work to comprehend, but we ...

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 ...

This direct descendant of the Newton apple tree was grafted and grown at Musser Fruit Research Center and will be planted on Clemson’s main campus. Clemson University The seeds for the idea were ...