A human tightrope walker is able to walk the rope only in one dimension, forward or backward. But an ant can access an ...

For many years, the simplest view of dark energy has been that it remains unchanged. Throughout cosmic history, the ...

A planet with the same mass as Earth approaches near the Moon's orbit.If such an event were to occur, what would happen to ...

A guide through the mind-bending physics of gravity with science writer James Riordan and his book Crush: Close Encounters ...

Ever since Newton published his universal law of gravitation in 1687, anyone with a slide rule and a half decent education could calculate the force of gravity on a falling body or a planet in orbit.

When Albert Einstein introduced his theory of general relativity in 1915, it changed the way we viewed the universe. His gravitational model showed how Newtonian gravity, which had dominated astronomy ...

Andy Tay is a UCLA Ph.D. student in bioengineering. This piece appeared on the Conversation. There’s one force whose effects are so deeply entrenched in our everyday lives that we probably don’t think ...

Something is seriously wrong with gravity, and nobody's quite sure why. The problem is that gravity is too weak. Out of the four fundamental physical forces in the universe—gravity, electromagnetism, ...

A new study reveals that eastern oyster larvae feed in a way scientists never expected, and the discovery raises urgent ...