A viral TikTok rumour claims Earth will lose gravity in 2026, but community notes and science show it is false.

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

A physicist has proposed a bold experiment that could allow gravitational waves to be manipulated using laser light. By ...

EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK, you can see gravity’s fingerprint. It’s in the path the moon takes around Earth each night and the humbling thump when you wipe out on an icy patch of sidewalk. The force of ...

Just over a week ago, European physicists announced they had measured the strength of gravity on the smallest scale ever. In a clever tabletop experiment, researchers at Leiden University in the ...

A new test of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity has proved the iconic physicist right again — this time by re-analyzing the famous first-ever picture of a black hole, which was released ...

If you’re superstitious, a black cat in your path is bad luck, even if you keep your distance. Likewise, in quantum physics, particles can feel the influence of magnetic fields that they never come ...

In the April 1981 issue of Popular Science, we explored the many initiatives and techniques used in the exciting hunt for sensing gravity waves, then out of reach. By Bill Gourgey Published May 18, ...

Artificial gravity remains the stuff of science fiction. But dealing with microgravity causes significant problems in many astronauts, ranging from bone deterioration to loss of sight. An alternative ...

Have you ever thrown your spare change into a coin vortex like the one we used to have in the gift shop at ECHO? When you put a coin in this, the coin spins around and around until eventually it ...