In an experiment that puts the good old-fashioned egg drop to shame, European physicists dropped a small blob of ultracold atoms down a 146-meter-tall shaft. The result: no yolk on their face. In the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 11, 2016 -- By carefully observing scenes as simple as leaves falling from trees or dandelion seeds blowing in the wind, we can see diverse "falling styles" that include ...

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As a result, any object in free fall near Earth's surface accelerates at 9.81 m/s/s. The gravitational force acting on an object is not always equal to its weight. A free falling object experiences a ...

If you want to build a rocket with a bold new design, you have to have a way to test its structural integrity without installing an engine. You don’t have a wind tunnel, but you’re not ready to ...

Take off: free-falling atoms were tested in this 'zero-G' aircraft operated by Novespace. (Courtesy: Novespace) “Weightless” experiments that compare the gravitational acceleration of two different ...

The MICROSCOPE mission tested the weak equivalence principle with free-falling objects in a satellite. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

It's a legendary experiment: Young Galileo, perched atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa, drops cannonballs of different weights to see if all objects fall at the same rate. It's a story that's easy to ...

Smashing pumpkins physics lesson Innovation High School students learn about physics and math as pumpkins are dropped 60 feet from a bucket truck in the school parking lot. GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Sixteen ...

Experts share tiny home warning as interest from young people soars Nineteen wickets, a 116-year low, and one huge problem for Australia Tourists embrace romance of rail on Australia's greatest luxury ...

James Clerk Maxwell conducted some of the first documented studies of free-falling objects during the mid-1800s, when the physicist analyzed the tumbling motion of a freely falling plate. But much ...