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 ...

Nabil Ali celebrates the long legacy of botanical pigments and the craft traditions that used them in a new book.

The story seems almost apocryphal: Young physicist Isaac Newton in his mother’s garden watching an apple fall from a tree — an observation that inspires his ...

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,” ...

Newton's apple tree bound for zero gravity 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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. | Sir Isaac Newton’s famous apple tree is about to leave gravity behind. Flying aboard space shuttle Atlantis on Friday will be a 4-inch sliver of the tree from which an apple ...

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 ...

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 ...

M-I-T is known world wide for the innovative thinkers and inventors who've passed through its classrooms. Those scholars have built upon the breakthroughs of the past ...

Giles Wood (centre) said it had been "a moving moment" to collect the sapling with his two sons Rollo (left) and Robert A descendant of Sir Isaac Newton who bought a sapling from the apple tree said ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A piece of the apple tree that helped British scientist Sir Isaac Newton explain the tug of Earth ...

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 ...