Keeping upright in a low-gravity environment is not easy, and NASA documents abound with examples of astronauts falling on the lunar surface. Now, a new study suggests that the reason for all these ...

Despite the accelerated melting of glaciers and ice sheets, sea levels aren’t rising quite as quickly as scientists anticipated. The reason: Continents are absorbing more of the water before it flows ...

Here are some brief summaries of some of the current and recent research projects to give you at least a flavor of the type of research we are doing in the lab. Artifical Gravity as a Countermeasure ...

Exactly one hundred years ago the force of gravity was measured for the first time with such accuracy that this measured value was established as a reference value world-wide. If a glitter ball falls ...

The Variable Gravity Machine (VGM) is a SABL insert that supports a wide variety of research in the life, physical, and material sciences aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The VGM allows ...

The experimenters stared through bulletproof glass at the whirling 8 m-diameter centrifuge. Never mind the shaking or stirring of drink cocktails – what happens when you spin a cocktail of molten ...