Gravity feels constant, almost invisible. It holds oceans in place and keeps us grounded, so we rarely question it. Yet every ...

Expose an animal to extreme physical stress, and the expectation is simple: It will break down. But when UC Riverside ...

And in a terrifying turn of events, scientists found that the fruit fly—a super common kitchen pest—adapts and survives under ...

Humans can tolerate only brief bursts of extreme gravitational force. Fighter pilots train to ...

University of California, Riverside researchers found fruit flies could survive and adapt to sustained hypergravity up to 13G, maintaining reproduction and eventually regaining normal behavior. The ...

Construction of the Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility (CHIEF) with the largest capacity worldwide kicked off in Hangzhou, E China's Zhejiang. (CREDIT: ifeng) Set to ...

In the quest for more efficient commercial aircraft to help reduce fuel consumption, weight reduction without compromising safety is one of the most obvious areas of focus. Researchers at the European ...

The smallest flowering plant on Earth might become a nutritious foodstuff for astronauts in the future, as well as a highly efficient source of oxygen. To help test their suitability for space, ...

Several different species of bacteria can survive and reproduce in “hypergravity” more than 400,000 times stronger than that of the Earth, a new study reports. The find suggests that alien life could ...

If alien life is out there, it may be able to exploit more-extreme environments than scientists think, because huge gravitational forces don't seem to pose much of a problem for microbes. Subscribe to ...