Collaborate Disseminate
A team of scientists at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and Florida State University’s National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have come up with a new design for a magnetic levitation-based low-gravity simulator that promises a huge increase in vol… Continue reading New low-gravity simulator design promises around 1,000 times the volume
[Fearless Night]’s slick dual hourglass doesn’t just simulate sand with LEDs, it also emulates the effects of gravity on those simulated particles and offers a few different mode options. The …read more Continue reading LED Matrix Hourglass Knows Which Way is Up
The International Space Station is humanity’s most expensive gym membership. Since the earliest days of human spaceflight, it’s been understood that longer trips away from Earth’s gravity can have a …read more Continue reading ISS Artificial Gravity Study Shows Promise for Long Duration Spaceflight
If you’ve ever wondered what would happen to wine aged for a year in space then wonder no more. A recent event in France conducted the first ever tasting of “space wine”, with one expert describing it as “more evolved” than its similarly aged earthboun… Continue reading Tasting experts sample wine aged for a year in space
Gravity is one of the more obvious forces in the universe, generally regarded as easily noticeable by the way apples fall from trees. However, the underlying mechanisms behind gravity are …read more Continue reading How The LIGO Observatory Detects Gravitational Waves
Just a few months ago, scientists reported the detection of very low-frequency gravitational waves. Now a pair of German astrophysicists has investigated two intriguing possible sources – the universe cooling down after the Big Bang, and a field of par… Continue reading Dark matter or cooling “primordial soup” could create gravitational waves
It’ll be Pi Day when this article goes live, at least for approximately half the globe west of the prime meridian. We always enjoy Pi Day, not least for the …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 14, 2021
Of the four fundamental forces, gravity is the one we’re most familiar with in our everyday lives, but perhaps surprisingly, it’s the weakest and hardest to measure here on Earth. Now, physicists in Austria have made the smallest measurement of gravity… Continue reading Physicists measure the gravitational pull of a ladybug
OK, that was a little click-baity, but then again, so was the announcement this week that a scientist had confirmed Hawking radiation with a lab-grown black hole. It sure got our attention, at least.
As it turns out, the truth …read more
According to Spectrum, several companies are poised to make a splash storing energy with gravity. That sounds fancy and high tech at first, but is it, really? Sure, we usually think of energy storage as some sort of battery, but there are many energy storage systems that use water falling, …read more
Continue reading Companies Have New Take on Old Energy Storage Tech