What could be more familiar than gravity? Drop something and gravity pulls it to the floor, right? And in school we learn that gravity is what guides the moon in orbit around Earth, and Earth in its ...

Gravity is the reason things with mass or energy are attracted to each other. It is why apples fall toward the ground and planets orbit stars. Magnets attract some types of metals, but they can also ...

Physics is this close to understanding the entire universe. And what lives in this gap? Many physicists think it’s the ...

As far as physicists have been able to determine, nature speaks two mutually unintelligible languages: one for gravity and one for everything else. Curves in the fabric of space-time tell planets and ...

Physics is the study of the underlying laws and mechanisms explaining how the universe works. Most of what we do in daily life is based on a principle or law of physics—dealing with forces, motion, ...

A new discovery suggests gravitational fields can enable matter to become quantum entangled — and that's even if the concept ...

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Falling into a black hole means facing extreme stretching, known as spaghettification, due to immense tidal forces. While ...