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.

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 ...

Newton's Apple Tree Bound For Gravity-Free Orbit Sir Isaac Newton famously formulated his theory of gravity while watching an apple fall from a tree. Now a bit of that tree is going into zero gravity.

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 ...

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 ...

Speaking about the significance of “Newton’s Apple Tree”, CUBG Curator Sam Brockington said: “We recently had the genome of our tree sequenced by the Darwin Tree of Life project.

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 ...

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 tree at Cambridge University’s Botanic Garden, a clone of Sir Isaac Newton’s apple tree, fell in a storm in 2022 (Dr Sam Brockington/ PA) Your support helps us to tell the story Read more ...

The tree is reputed to be the one from which in 1665 fell the apple that helped Sir Isaac Newton formulate his Universal Law of Gravitation. The original tree died about 1815-1820.

Isaac Newton's apple tree, the Magna Carta tree and the Tolpuddle Martyrs' tree will all feature in a mass survey of ancient organisms to be carried out by the National Trust.