Almost everyone has heard some version of the story, an apple fell from a tree, struck Isaac Newton on the head, and the theory of gravity sprang fully formed into his mind. It makes for a wonderfully ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in the U.K. have uncovered a miscellany of everyday objects from the site of a house that was built for the mother of Isaac Newton in the 1650s. The house, which was demolished 200 ...

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree for relatives of Sir Isaac Newton, as some of his cider-making descendants have purchased a sapling from the apple tree which inspired the famous physicist’s ...

Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester.View full profile Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester. A clone of the original apple tree that ...

“Newton’s Apple Tree” in Cambridge University Botanic Garden (CUBG) was a direct descendent of an apple tree in the garden of Woolsthorpe Manor, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, which is said to have ...

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 an ...

An artist has made ink from a clone of Sir Isaac Newton’s apple tree that was blown down by Storm Eunice in Cambridge last year. The fallen tree was a scion of the original apple tree which was said ...

A descendant of science’s most influential apple tree will take root this fall at Tufts University. The tree is four generations removed from the one that three and a half centuries ago dropped an ...