From the very tree where an apple once inspired Isaac Newton to formulate his theory of gravity to the Bodhi tree under which Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment, these iconic trees continue to ...

Cambridge University Botanic Garden has lost its "Newton's apple tree" to Storm ... He said the tree was cloned from the one that led Sir Isaac Newton to discover the laws of gravity.

He was sitting in the orchard at Woolsthorpe, thinking deep thoughts, when an apple fell from a tree. And all at once ... story of the life and ideas of Isaac Newton, who was born on Christmas ...

The apple that fell from the tree in front of Sir Isaac Newton’s childhood home, Woolsthorpe Manor, did not, as myth suggests, smack the great man on the head. It landed, as apples do ...

From the discovery of gravity to the first mission to defend Earth from an asteroid, here are the most important physics ...

Five cuttings have been gifted to the nearest university to the scientist's home. Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree is set to be "cloned" in a bid to inspire students to think like the pioneering ...

Legend has it that Isaac Newton was sitting under a tree when an apple fell on his head, sparking a bout of scientific ...

Sir Isaac Newton was famously sitting under an apple tree, when a falling apple inspired his revolutionary theories about gravity. Today, seeds from that very same apple tree have been collected and ...

Designed by Ronald Wayne, it depicted Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree shown with the quote “Newton… a mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought”. In 1976, Rob Janoff ...

Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe ... Newton remembered that he had been sitting beneath an apple tree at his family home of Woolsthorpe, and a falling apple had prompted ...

Iconic examples include Isaac Newton’s apple tree inspiring his gravity theory, the Bodhi tree where Buddha attained enlightenment, and the Magna Carta-signing Ankerwycke Yew. These trees stand ...