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 ...

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 ...

A piece of the apple tree that helped British scientist Sir Isaac Newton explain the tug of Earth's gravity and laws of motion in the 17th century is about to escape that gravitational pull when ...

Piers Seller, a U.K. native, will bring a bit of the tree into space on the next shuttle mission. Sir Isaac Newton hatched his theory of gravity in the 1600s after he witnessed an apple from the ...

The very same tree from which Isaac Newton came up with the law of gravity is still alive and thriving in ... For at least 240 years it has been shown to visitors as Isaac Newton's apple tree.

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 ...

[Newton] told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came into his mind. It was occasion'd by the fall of an apple, as he sat in contemplative mood.

So Apple has dropped out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. It's the fifth American corporation to openly disagree with the Chamber's aggressive, well-funded campaigning to kill any federal ...

The popular story of an apple falling on Sir Isaac Newton’s head, leading to his discovery of gravity, is more myth than fact. The tale suggests that Newton was sitting under an apple tree when ...