The world's most sensitive table-top interferometric system—a miniature version of miles-long gravitational-wave detectors like LIGO—has completed its first science run.

Earth carries an invisible ocean “water level” called the geoid. If only gravity and rotation shaped the oceans, the surface would match that geoid everywhere. However, south of India, the geoid sinks ...

Researchers in Canada have proposed using gravity-based energy storage in high-rise buildings, in combination with photovoltaic facades, small wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries. Their modeling ...

Four bottles of the strongest beers in the world against a red background. - Static Media / Shutterstock / Getty Beer strength is measured in alcohol by volume (ABV), and a typical beer falls in the 3 ...

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In recent years, romantasy has been an inescapable genre in books. The high-stakes worldbuilding, political unrest, magic and magical beings (werewolves, vampires, dragons and more) and swoony ...

The concept of disconnecting to reconnect is deeply human. It is an elemental impulse, a quiet rebellion, an act of optimism. You’re throwing a wish out to the universe, wagering that by stepping away ...

Shadow Ticket,” Pynchon’s first book in a dozen years, unfolds its conspiracies in Depression-era Milwaukee and beyond, but it lands in a moment when reality seems to have caught up with his fictions.