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 ...

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 ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It's a tale as old as time itself: Isaac Newton sat under a tree, got hit in the head with an apple and came up with the theories of gravity and motion. So, the story itself may ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alex Chadwick talks Ira Flatow, host of NPR's Talk of the Nation Science Friday, about new examinations of the theories of Galileo and Isaac Newton relating to gravity. This is DAY TO DAY. I'm Alex ...

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 ...

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 ...