A descendant of Sir Isaac Newton has bought a sapling from the apple tree said to have inspired the theory of gravity so that he can grow it at the family's cider farm. Giles Wood, 68, from Dorset ...

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 ...

The very same tree from which Isaac Newton came up with the law of gravity is still alive and thriving in Woolsthorpe Manor, England, in Newton’s family home and where he spent his childhood.

Newton’s Apple Tree, located at Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire, England, is famously linked to Sir Isaac Newton’s discovery of the law of gravity. It so goes that this was the place where ...

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 ...

The seeds of Newton's famous apple tree eventually spread to six continents. "Newton's tree can be found across the globe, from America to Japan," said Michalak.

Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne. Sir Isaac Newton famously formulated his theory of gravity while watching an apple fall from a tree back in 1666. Now a bit of that tree is going zero gravity.

The Flower of Kent is already in flower. One of two clones of Isaac Newton’s original apple tree is already bearing a blossom, even though the two were planted in late February outside Small Hall.

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 ...

1726: Isaac Newton tells a biographer the story of how an apple falling in his garden prompted him to develop his law of universal gravitation. It will become an enduring origin story in the ...