A Zone Under Antarctica Has the Weakest Gravity on Earth—and It’s Evolving, Scientists Say

The “gravity hole” formed at least 70 million years ago after convection in Earth’s mantle. The weak gravity could impact our ...

Earth’s Gravity Could Undergo a Bizarre Change, According to This Wild Theory

A conspiracy theory that spread on social media claims that gravity will disappear for seven seconds this August, and that NASA is aware that this will happen. A physics professor explains why this is ...
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Gravity from Entropy: Breakthrough Theory Links Quantum Mechanics and Relativity

For decades, physicists have struggled to reconcile the laws governing the very small with those that describe the vast cosmos. Quantum mechanics rules subatomic particles, while general relativity ...
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Wild new theory says gravity comes from entropy, could finally unify physics

Gravity is supposed to be the most familiar force in nature, yet at the deepest level it remains the least understood. A bold new line of research now argues that gravity is not fundamental at all, ...

Origins of ‘gravity hole’ over Antarctica finally unveiled

Origins of ‘gravity hole’ over Antarctica finally unveiled - Researchers found that shifting gravity patterns may have encouraged the growth of Antarctica’s huge ice sheets ...
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Gravity Experiments on the Kitchen Table: Why a Tiny, Tiny Measurement May Be a Big Leap Forward for Physics

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 ...
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New unified gravity theory could finally bridge Einstein and quantum physics

In a bold step toward solving one of science’s most puzzling problems, researchers have proposed a new way to bring gravity into the same mathematical language as the other forces of nature. While the ...
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Physicists Just Measured Gravity on the Smallest Scale Ever By Using a Promising New Technique

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 ...
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Scientists test for quantum nature of gravity

Einstein's theory of general relativity explains that gravity is caused by a curvature of the directions of space and time. The most familiar manifestation of this is the Earth's gravity, which keeps ...

Antarctica hides Earth’s strongest gravity hole: What this mysterious gravity could mean for the planet

Gravity seems constant but it turns out, Earth is weirder than that. Gravity actually wobbles a bit across the planet. And ...
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There’s a New Theory About Where Dark Matter Is Hiding

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When it comes to understanding the fabric of the universe, most of what scientists think exists is consigned to a dark, murky domain.