Showing posts with label gravity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gravity. Show all posts
Monday, January 11, 2016

Have Gravitational Waves Finally Been Detected?

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Binary stars may generate gravitational waves. R. Hurt - Caltech/JPL Popular Science: Physicist Tweets Rumour That Gravitational Waves...
Saturday, January 9, 2016

The Radical Plan To Manipulate Gravity

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André Füzfa from the University of Namur has proposed a method to produce and detect gravitational fields, and says it’s achievable with ...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Earth's Gravity Is Being Altered By Melting Glaciers

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In this image, the location of the successive calving fronts of Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier between 1851 and 2009 are overlain...
Friday, November 5, 2010

Gravity Suit Mimics Earth's Pull For Astronauts

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Photo: The suit is made of a fabric with carefully tailored stretchiness From The BBC: A stretchy suit that mimics the effects of the Earth...
Monday, October 4, 2010

Gravity Genius: How I Will Spend Half A Million Bucks

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Genius at work, really (Image: Darren McCollester/MacArthur Foundation) From New Scientist: Among this year's 23 recipients of the John ...
Monday, September 13, 2010

Glasperlenspiel: Scientists Propose New Test for Gravity

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A beam of laser light (red) should be able to cause a glass bead of approximately 300 nanometers in diameter to levitate, and the floating b...
Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Nature's Most Precise Clocks May Make 'Galactic GPS' Possible: Pulsars Help In Search For Gravitational Waves

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Fermi Large Area Telescope first year map of the gamma-ray sky at energies above 100 MeV with the locations of the new millisecond pulsars s...
Sunday, December 27, 2009

Europe's Goce Satellite Probes Earth's Gravity

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A first glimpse at the data coming down from Europe's Goce satellite From The BBC: Europe's Goce satellite is returning remarkable n...
Friday, November 13, 2009

Quantum 'Trampoline' To Test Gravity

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From The New Scientist: IT'S the world's smallest trampoline. Bouncing atoms with lasers could make ultra-precise measurements of gr...
Saturday, October 3, 2009

GOCE Harnesses Ion Propulsion To Capture First 'Gravity Map' Of Earth

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Ion-Propelled Gradiometer GOCE must remain in stable free fall at low orbit, so an electric ion propulsion engine constantly provides small...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

Satellite To Begin Gravity Quest

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From The BBC: A European spacecraft will begin its quest this week to make the most detailed global map of the Earth's gravity field. Th...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Nasa Scientists Levitate Mice With Magnet

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Scientists have previously managed to levitate frogs and grasshoppers From The Telegraph: Nasa-backed scientists have successfully levitated...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Listening for Gravity Waves, Silence Becomes Meaningful

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Photo: ARMED FOR DISCOVERY: At the LIGO site in Louisiana, a pair of four-kilometer-long arms [one of which stretches toward the top of thi...
Friday, August 21, 2009

Echoes Of The Birth Of The Universe: New Limits On Big Bang's Gravitational Waves

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Aerial view of LIGO facility in Livingston, Louisiana. (Credit: LIGO, California Institute of Technology.) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily...
Monday, July 20, 2009

July Eclipse Is Best Chance To Look For Gravity Anomaly

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From New Scientist: From remote observatories on the Tibetan plateau to a cave in a Shanghai suburb, Chinese researchers are poised to condu...
Saturday, June 13, 2009

Gravity Mysteries: What Is Gravity?

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Image: We tend to think of gravity as a force that affects objects, but Einstein showed it was something else entirely (Image: Alex Telfer ...
Thursday, June 11, 2009

Seven Mysteries Of Gravity

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From New Scientist: It's the force we all know about and think we understand. It keeps our feet firmly on the ground and our world circl...
Saturday, May 16, 2009

Melting Ice Could Cause Gravity Shift

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The disintegration of the Antarctic ice sheet could cause catastrophic flooding on the east and west coasts of America. AFP From The Indepen...
Friday, April 10, 2009

Twin Spacecraft To Explore Gravitational 'Parking Lots' That May Hold Secret Of Moon's Origin

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Artist's concept of the STEREO spacecraft. (Credit: NASA) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Apr. 10, 2009) — Two places on opposite side...
Wednesday, January 7, 2009

U.S. Scientists Learn How To Levitate Tiny Objects

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Photo : An artist's rendition shows how the repulsive Casimir-Lifshitz force between suitable materials in a fluid can be used to quantu...