GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ, MATHEMATICIAN: When Isaac first explained his theory of gravity to me, I remember being impressed. Not by the theory, which, as far as I could tell, was basically that stuff falls ...

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 ...

M-I-T is known world wide for the innovative thinkers and inventors who've passed through its classrooms. Those scholars have built upon the breakthroughs of the past ...

Isaac Newton lounging beneath an apple tree, suddenly getting bonked on the head by falling fruit, and boom—gravity is ...

Newton's apple tree bound for zero 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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered Isaac Newton’s childhood home near the location of iconic apple tree that resulted in the birth of the Theory of Gravity in the 17th century. The remnants of the 17th ...

Sir Isaac Newton wondered what made objects fall to Earth. As the story goes, he was sitting under a certain kind of tree when the answer came to him: It was gravity that caused things to fall to ...

A glance at the October issue of Discover: Could Isaac Newton have been wrong? Some scientists think there’s something wrong with the theory of gravity, writes Tim Folger, a contributing editor at the ...

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 apple ...