On Earth, gravity constantly pulls fluids in your body and your brain toward the center of the Earth. In space, that force disappears. Body fluids shift toward the head, which gives astronauts a puffy ...

Going to space is harsh on the human body, and as a new study from our research team finds, the brain shifts upward and backward and deforms inside the skull after spaceflight. When you purchase ...

Gravity feels reliable—stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over Earth's surface. And it is weakest ...

Going to space is harsh on the human body, and as a new study from our research team finds, the brain shifts upward and backward and deforms inside the skull after spaceflight. The extent of these ...

No Man's Sky's next big update, Remnant, is here, introducing something developer Hello Games has "been wanting to give players since the very beginning": a gravity gun. Called the Gravitino Coil, the ...

Rachael Seidler receives funding from NASA. Tianyi Wang received funding from NASA. The extent of these changes was greater for those who spent longer in space. As NASA plans longer space missions, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The extent of these changes was greater for those who spent longer in space. As NASA ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Rachael Seidler, University of Florida and Tianyi (Erik) Wang, University of Florida ...

The skull of a Viking-era man who had part of his skull cut out in the world’s oldest surgical procedure has been unearthed. The remains of a man between 17 and 24 revealed a large oval hole in his ...

There is a rumor going around online—on Reddit, Facebook, TikTok, and (I assume) Friendster—that gravity will stop working for seven seconds on August 12. Here is part of the warning posted online: In ...

Lucid’s second act is a shape-shifting family hauler that everyone outside of Porsche—and perhaps even including Porsche—should be benchmarking heading into the new year. The 2026 Lucid Gravity has ...