Astronauts on the International Space Station have given azero gravity tribute to famed 17th century scientist Sir Isaac Newton in honorof his pioneering work to understand the laws of gravity ? which ...

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 ...

This week marks the 328th anniversary of the publication of “Principia,” Sir Isaac Newton’s groundbreaking work detailing, among other concepts, his laws of motions and universal gravitation. But ...

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 ago ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A piece of the apple tree that helped British scientist Sir Isaac Newton explain the tug of Earth ...

If all goes as scheduled, Sir Isaac Newton’s apple tree—which inspired him to formulate his Universal Law of Gravitation—will launch to space next Friday at 2:20PM Eastern Time. Not the whole tree, ...

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. The space shuttle launching Friday will carry a ...