Earth's orbiting satellites are commonly regarded as if they were suspended in mid-air. It is a fact that they actually ...

The new system, called CHIEF1900, was built by Shanghai Electric Nuclear Power Group as part of China's Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility, or CHIEF. It ...

An analysis of several experiments aimed at detecting the mysterious neutrino has identified a hint of a crack in the ...

C hina has decided to take hypergravity to a whole new level – testing both materials and fundamental physics in a regime we ...

Moon dust is sharp, corrosive, and potentially fatal. NASA’s new electric force field shield is designed to blast it away.

Could the icy moons of our solar system hold life beyond our planet? Keith Cooper looks at how planetary scientists plan to find out ...

For centuries, the principle of symmetry has guided physicists towards more fundamental truths, but now a slew of shocking ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the immovable backdrop of modern physics, a force that can be described and ...

Wu designed and executed an experiment that questioned — and then disproved — the infallibility of parity. After freezing a ...

Astronomers have directly observed a spinning black hole twisting spacetime, confirming a century-old prediction of ...

China has unveiled the world’s most powerful hypergravity centrifuge, the CHIEF1900. This machine marks a major leap in the ...

In an earlier blog post about Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster movie, Interstellar, I lauded the film for its ambition, ...