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 ...

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 ...

Isaac Newton lounging beneath an apple tree, suddenly getting bonked on the head by falling fruit, and boom—gravity is ...

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 ...

Born Dec. 25, 1642, Isaac Newton is likely best known for his conception of the theory of gravity. But there were many more ...

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 ...

While many people around the world are opening presents and gathering with family as part of honoring of the birth of baby Jesus, some science enthusiasts are also celebrating another kind of luminary ...

What could be more familiar than gravity? Drop something and gravity pulls it to the floor, right? And in school we learn that gravity is what guides the moon in orbit around Earth, and Earth in its ...