What is mass? It seems like a synonym for weight, but that isn’t quite right. Weight is how we measure the pressure that gravity exerts upon things. But mass? Mass is the actual presence of an item — ...

This is one of those times where my mother would probably ask: "what's the point of spending time and resources on this?" She most recently said the same about exploring Mars. "For science!" and "to ...

Just over a week ago, European physicists announced they had measured the strength of gravity on the smallest scale ever. In a clever tabletop experiment, researchers at Leiden University in the ...

Scientists have succesfully measured the direct influence of gravity on antimatter for the first time in history by dropping antihydrogen atoms from a magnetic trap, and observing as they annihalated ...

GRASS will launch about the Hera mission in October 2024, if all goes according to plan. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...

In this case, we can say that reconciling gravity and quantum mechanics is a big unknown, and likely to have some practical applications we can't anticipate. With that as a goal, we can then ...