ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It's a tale as old as time itself: Isaac Newton sat under a tree, got hit in the head with an apple and came up with the theories of gravity and motion. So, the story itself may ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station have given azero gravity tribute to famed 17th century scientist Sir Isaac Newton in honorof his pioneering work to understand the laws of gravity ? which ...

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, ...

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 ...

When I was five years old, my family moved into a 1930s semi-detached house with a long strip of garden. At the end of the garden was a miniature orchard of eight apple trees the previous owners had ...

The papers, which are written in Latin and have some English headings, are a distillation of the chemical processes contained within the writings of influential 17th-century alchemist Johann de Monte ...

A curious thing happened to Isaac Newton on the way to a grand new exhibition at the New York Public Library, “The Newtonian Moment: Science and the Making of Modern Culture.” He seems to have gone ...

While many people around the world are opening presents and gathering with family as part of honoring of the birth of baby Jesus, some science enthusiasts are also celebrating another kind of luminary ...