How working out like an astronaut can reduce back pain and slow ageing
During my years working with astronauts, it was routine to hear about returning crew being carried from their…
Two Protoplanets Emerge from Dusty Disk around Nearby Young Star
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and VLT Interferometer (VLTI) in Chile, astronomers have directly observed two gas…
How to beat the ‘singles tax’ and save money on everything from holidays and food
MoneyMagpie’s Vicky Parry tells us all the best deals for single people in 2026 and takes a close…
Record-breaking gravitational wave puts Einstein’s relativity to its toughest test yet — and proves him right again
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Does dark matter actually exist? New theory says it could be gravity behaving strangely
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Physicists Begin Building First-Ever Graviton Detector
Stevens Institute of Technology physicist Igor Pikovski and colleagues are developing the first experiment designed to capture individual…
World’s first ‘graviton trap’ aims to solve century-old physics mystery
Physicists from Stevens Institute of Technology and Yale University have launched an experimental program to detect gravitons —…
New Solution to Cosmic Acceleration Challenges Dark Energy Paradigm
Physicists from the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity at the University of Bremen and the Transylvanian…
How Do Astronomers Find Planets in Other Solar Systems?
It was almost 100 years ago that Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered Pluto. That was the last planet found…
How acoustic levitation was scaled beyond a single particle
Sound is energy carried by vibrations moving through matter. It is something we hear, not something we expect…
New gravitational lens measurements reveal a faster expansion rate for the universe
For much of the twentieth century, scientists expected the expanding universe to slow over time. The opposite turned…
Time moves faster on Mars than on Earth, study finds
On Earth, knowing the time feels simple. Your phone pings the same second as a GPS satellite and…