CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — 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 ...

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 ...

NASA astronaut Piers Sellers will take the larger of these two pieces of the apple tree credited by Isaac Newton has helping him discover the laws of motion that explain gravity during NASA's STS ...

The seeds for the idea were planted when a student picked up an apple. The fruit had fallen from a special tree – a clone of the apple tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of 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 ...

In 1666, according to legend, Cambridge University closed due to an outbreak of bubonic plague, so student Newton was sent home. He was sitting beneath the tree when he saw an apple fall.

Clemson University will plant a grafted clone of the apple tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity in 1666 England, becoming the latest descendant of the tree to be planted ...

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.