AN absolute determination of the acceleration due to gravity at a site in the National Physical Laboratory has recently been completed. It is the first to be made by timing the symmetrical up-and-down ...

Recent NASA research has confirmed that the world’s oceans are swallowing up land at a faster pace than previously thought. Using advanced satellite laser technology, scientists have tracked changes ...

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Doctors know the importance of losing extra weight, but Dr. Brennan Spiegel voluntarily spends part of his day being overweight by 60 pounds to boost his health. Spiegel wears a 20-pound weighted vest ...

Astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how massive stars are born, revealing a dramatic interplay between ...

Rising temperatures continue to wreak havoc on glaciers around the world. The latest evidence comes from Switzerland, where ...

Orienspace's Gravity-1, the world's most powerful solid-fuel rocket, launched from the deck of a ship in the Yellow Sea on ...

Nature 408, 184— 187 (2000). In this paper, part of the labelling of Figs 2–4 was printed incorrectly. In Fig. 2, the year 2950 should have been 2050. In Figs 2 and 3, the year 1050 should have been ...

Canadian pair Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps will launch their Olympic season this week at the ISU Grand Prix in ...

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