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Gravity variations much bigger than previously thought
Sep 05, 2013 (SPX)
A joint Australian-German research team led by Curtin University's Dr Christian Hirt has created the highest-resolution maps of Earth's gravity field to date - ...
New map reveals Earth's gravity not the same around the globe
Aug 20, 2013 (UPI)
Australian scientists say satellite and topographic data has provided the most accurate map of the variations in Earth's gravity at locations around the world. ...
How Do We Know It's Really Microgravity?
Jun 13, 2013 (SPX)
When you see astronauts floating around the International Space Station and hear they are in microgravity, what does that really mean? We know that the astronau...
Heart of LISA Pathfinder Mission Tested
Jun 06, 2013 (SPX)
The optical bench of the LISA Pathfinder (LPF) mission passed with flying colors extensive testing at the Institute for Gravitational Research (IGR) at the Univ...
New method proposed for detecting gravitational waves from ends of universe
May 20, 2013 (SPX)
A new window into the nature of the universe may be possible with a device proposed by scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno and Stanford University that...
Space Warps Project Needs Your Help
May 10, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers are asking volunteers to help them search for "space warps." More commonly known as "gravitational lenses," these are rare systems with very massive...
A Heavyweight For Einstein: Probing Gravity Where No One Has Done It Before
Apr 30, 2013 (SPX)
An international research team led by astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (Bonn, Germany) used a collection of large radio and optical...
Einstein's gravity theory passes toughest test yet
Apr 29, 2013 (SPX)
A strange stellar pair nearly 7,000 light-years from Earth has provided physicists with a unique cosmic laboratory for studying the nature of gravity. The extre...
Gravity-Bending Find Leads to Kepler Meeting Einstein
Apr 05, 2013 (JPL)
NASA's Kepler space telescope has witnessed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion star. The findings are among the first detections of t...
Curtains down for the black hole firewall paradox
Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)
Research by scientists at the University of York has revealed new insights into the life and death of black holes. Their findings dispel the so-called firewall ...
Physicists discover key to ultra-stable bearings
Feb 21, 2013 (SPX)
Networks of rotating bearings can better recover from perturbations to their harmonious motion if the masses of the individual discs are proportional to their r...
A Simple View Of Gravity Does Not Fully Explain The Distribution Of Stars In Crowded Clusters
Feb 21, 2013 (SPX)
Gravity remains the dominant force on large astronomical scales, but when it comes to stars in young star clusters the dynamics in these crowded environments ca...
Bochum physicist calculates field strengths in the early universe
Jan 04, 2013 (SPX)
Magnets have practically become everyday objects. Earlier on, however, the universe consisted only of nonmagnetic elements and particles. Just how the magnetic ...
Chinese scientists find evidence for speed of gravity
Dec 28, 2012 (XNA)
Chinese scientists revealed Wednesday that they have found evidence supporting the hypothesis that gravity travels at the speed of light based on data gleaned f...
MIT researchers discover a new kind of magnetism
Dec 21, 2012 (SPX)
Following up on earlier theoretical predictions, MIT researchers have now demonstrated experimentally the existence of a fundamentally new kind of magnetic beha...
Satellite brought closer to Earth to work
Nov 20, 2012 (UPI)
A European gravity-mapping satellite orbiting about 340 miles closer to Earth than any other satellite is to be brought even lower and closer, officials say. Th...
NASA Pursues Atom Optics to Detect the Imperceptible
Oct 19, 2012 (SPX)
A pioneering technology capable of atomic-level precision is now being developed to detect what so far has remained imperceptible: gravitational waves or ripple...
An extremely brief reversal of the geomagnetic field, climate variability and a super volcano
Oct 17, 2012 (SPX)
41,000 years ago, a complete and rapid reversal of the geomagnetic field occured. Magnetic studies of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences on sediment...
NMSU celebrates professor for garnering U.S. patent on reduced-gravity technology
Oct 02, 2012 (SPX)
A Research Rally at New Mexico State University has recently celebrated a mechanical and aerospace engineering professor for receiving a U.S. patent on reduced-...
Space-warping white dwarfs produce gravitational waves
Sep 03, 2012 (SPX)
Gravitational waves, much like the recently discovered Higgs boson, are notoriously difficult to observe. Scientists first detected these ripples in the fabric ...
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