Image: Isaac Newton was 83 when he told a biographer the tale of observing an apple fall at age 23. He's 46 in this 1689 painting by Godfrey Kneller. This article first appeared on Wired.com April ...

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 ...

The original: Woolsthorpe Manor is seen in the background of this photo of what is believed to be the apple tree that inspired Isaac Newton. (Courtesy: Bs0u10e01/CC BY-SA 4.0) Do you fancy getting ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station have given a zero gravity tribute to famed 17th century scientist Sir Isaac Newton in honor of his pioneering work to understand the laws of gravity ...

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 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.

Philip Ball tells the story of the life and ideas of Isaac Newton, who was born on Christmas Day in 1642. ... (Image: Isaac Newton under his apple-tree. Credit: API/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images) ...

We've all heard the story. A young Isaac Newton is sitting beneath an apple tree contemplating the mysterious universe. Suddenly - boink! -an apple hits him on the head. "Aha!" he shouts, or ...