To what extent has Earth’s gravity shaped our cognitive and brain functions? Utilizing spaceflight and a ground-based analog, a new study shows that the human brain relies on bodily gravitational ...

Gravity is the force of action between two objects. It’s called a natural force because it acts at a distance rather than needing to be in contact. Gravity is the force that holds us down on Earth and ...

KANNAPOLIS — Balloons, plastic grocery bags and Legos combined Wednesday to spark the imaginations of about a dozen children who gathered at the Kannapolis Library. Linda Duren, a children’s librarian ...

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There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

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Physicists at Canada’s University of Waterloo have achieved something extraordinary. They’ve made a ball roll vertically down a wall - defying gravity and upending conventional physics. Traditionally, ...

Experimental design (a) and results for the space experiment (b) and the ground-based control experiments (c & d). BMIE: the normalized BM inversion effect; BMUpr & BMInv: task performances for the ...