The subject of comedy sketches and cartoons as well as learned articles, the story of Newton and the falling apple is undoubtedly the best known anecdote in the entire history of science. Inevitably ...

Reimagining Isaac Newton’s iconic moment under the apple tree, Kapur’s post took a whimsical turn, giving voice to both the Earth and the falling apple in a profound exchange.

The tree was a Newton’s apple, but a variety of the fruit. Dick Bourgeois-Doyle, who exposed the imposter trees while working on a book for the council’s centennial celebrations in 2016, says ...

A descendant of the very apple tree whose falling fruit reputedly led to Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravity has finally been acknowledged after years of growing unnoticed on a college campus.

Legend has it that Isaac Newton had the moment of inspiration that would lead to his theory of gravity when, on a warm afternoon, he saw an apple fall from a tree and wondered why it should fall ...

Apple trees, which descended from one in England said to be Isaac Newton's famed tree, are seen in a traffic roundabout on the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver.