See how a simple DIY gravity battery experiment led to unexpected outcomes. This project shows creativity and experimentation ...

What happens to soft matter when gravity disappears? To answer this, UvA physicists launched a fluid dynamics experiment on a sounding rocket. The suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 267 km ...

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Despite dozens of experiments over the years, scientists still don't have a precise measurement for gravity's strength. Why is that?

Scientists are now developing spinning space stations with artificial gravity that could take astronauts deeper into the ...

On Wednesday (Sept. 27) morning, an international team of physicists reported a major finding about an elusive form of matter known as antimatter. It appears that antimatter responds to gravity the ...

Gravity can turn itself into light, but only if space-time behaves in just the right way, a research team has found. Under normal circumstances, you cannot get something from nothing. Specifically, ...

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Antimatter — the mysterious substance that's the mirror opposite of matter in most ways — falls downward in gravity like everything else in the universe, a team of physicists reported Wednesday in the ...

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