The Flower of Kent is already in flower. One of two clones of Isaac Newton’s original apple tree is already bearing a blossom, even though the two were planted in late February outside Small Hall.

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 ...

Its roots can be traced back to the tree that inspired an epiphany: a “Flower of Kent” specimen tree that lived in the garden of the mother of Sir Isaac Newton. That ancient tree lives on what ...

STANFORD — What’s this tree hiding? A sapling on the Stanford campus is heir to scientific aristocracy, the descendant of the tree that legend says inspired Sir Isaac Newton’s Theory of ...

Two physicists and a biologist were discussing a fruit lying beneath one of William & Mary’s Isaac Newton trees. One of the physicists asked the question: What caused that apple to fall? “Abscission,” ...

I must admit, though I wrote a book about apples a few years ago, I'd never heard of this scientific soft spot for Newton's apple tree. It turns out there are august research institutes all over ...

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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 ...

A clone of the original apple tree that dropped an apple on the head of Sir Isaac Newton has fallen down in Cambridge Botanic Garden after record winds have battered the UK during Storm Eunice ...

Happy Birthday, Isaac Newton: Birth of Physicist Who Discovered Gravity Celebrated on Christmas Day Published Dec 25, 2017 at 5:21 PM EST Drawing of Sir Isaac Newton contemplating gravity.