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Check out the first teaser trailer for ‘Gravity’

In theaters this October. Academy Award® winners Sandra Bullock (“The Blind Side,” “The Proposal”) and George Clooney (“Up in the Air,” “Syriana”) star in “Gravity,” a heart-pounding thriller that pulls you into the infinite and unforgiving realm of deep space. The film was directed by Oscar® nominee Alfonso Cuarón (“Children of Men”).

If the Nordtvedt effect is right, two objects of different masses don’t really fall at the same rate

Famously tested by Galileo and tested again and again and again thousands and thousands of times over the ages, it’s come to be that two objects of different masses falling towards the same body (Earth for example), will fall at the same rate. It’s even been tested on the Moon, and it works perfectly. But professor Kenneth Nordtvedt of the University of Montana thinks this solidly tested notion may be incorrect.

posted 04 February, 2013
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2,000 ping pong balls and 30 teachers in low gravity

In 2010, before Northrop Grumman’s Weightless Flights of Discovery program was shut down, thirty teachers and two thousand ping pong balls took a ride in a vomit comet and this was the result.

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posted 16 December, 2012
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TED video of the day: Would you weigh less if you jumped in an elevator?

Would you weigh less if you jumped in an elevator? Gravity, the normal force, and Newton’s Second Law of Motion, explained in a lovely animation from TED.

posted 19 November, 2012
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Astronomers observe waves of gravity in space-time itself

Scientists have finally been able to detect a gravity wave moving through space and time, just as Einstein predicted.

posted 05 September, 2012
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Astronaut Don Pettit plays with yo-yos in space

Everything is cooler in space, including yo-yos. Normally subject to the laws of Earth gravity, astronaut Don Pettit shows how you can replicate Earthly yo-yo tricks with inertia.

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How “mystery spots” and “gravity hills” work

All over the US, and in several parts of the world, in rural areas and urban, there are places that locals refer to as either “mystery spots” or “gravity hills”— places where gravity seems to work backwards. But are they really anomalies in gravity? Nope, we’re just gullible. Surprise.

Saturday science: In zero gravity, static electricity walks on water

Astronaut Don Pettit demonstrated the laws of static electricity on Space Station with the help of a water dropper and grandma’s sweater maker: knitting needle.

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NASA sends GRAIL beacons to measure the Moon’s gravity

Yesterday, NASA successfully put a pair of lunar probes into orbit around the Moon, meant to map the gravity field of the Moon, and use that to probe the interior composition. The probes go by the name of GRAIL, or Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory.

posted 02 January, 2012
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The key to anti-gravity and faster than light travel might be moving in the fourth dimension

That faster than light neutrino turned out to likely just be a miscalculation, but there still are theoretical ways to move “faster than light” if you know how to use the rules to your advantage. And using the Heim Theory, it might be possible to use a large enough electromagnetic field to bounce to the fourth dimension.

posted 07 November, 2011
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Should gravity be taught in schools?

A remix or re-edit or whatnot of the video of Miss America contestants talking about evolution, only this time taking on an even more controversial topic— gravity. It’s serious.

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Orbiting gravity probe proves Einstein was right about planets warping space and time

Science finds that Einstein’s theory of gravity was correct in the idea that space-time curves around us fatties and not around teenage girls. Seems like something I have known forever.

New gravity satellite view of Earth shows a lumpy planet. Gravity sucks

Apparently Europe is being held back because of all the gravity, or something. This view of the Earth, taken by the European Goce satellite, maps the varying effects of gravity across the planet. Yellow areas have stronger gravity and blue areas are weaker.

How do pigeons fly in zero gravity? Like shit.

Birds normally use magical internal controls to make sure that they have a sense of up, down, left and right so that they can keep their bodies parallel to the ground. In zero gravity, their internal mechanisms are all sorts of screwed up and it’s hilarious.

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