Explainer: gravity
I have spent almost 40 years trying to detect gravity waves.
When I started there were just a few of us working away in university labs. Today 1,000 physicists working with billion-dollar observatories…
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Nobel Prize win tells us the universe is accelerating … what does that mean?
Occasionally, very occasionally, a discovery comes along that reshapes our view of the universe.
Some discoveries teach us about ourselves; some teach us how to better interact with the world around us;…
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Gravity variations indicate depth to earth’s mantle
Scientists have used gravitational measurements from the low-flying Goce satellite to map the boundary between the earth…
Does antimatter weigh more than matter?
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Gravity detection gets a pull in the right direction
The detection of gravitational waves has become more precise.
Scientists used a quantum physics instrument to “squeeze…