News About Physics 09-NOV-09 en-us Paris, France (ESA) Nov 03, 2009 - ESA is offering European students the opportunity to conduct hypergravity experiments, with a call for proposals for the 2010 'Spin Your Thesis!' programme.]]> Paris, France (ESA) Oct 01, 2009 - Following the launch and in-orbit testing of the most sophisticated gravity mission ever built, ESA's GOCE satellite is now in 'measurement mode', mapping tiny variations in Earth's gravity in unprecedented detail.]]> Columbia MO (SPX) Sep 02, 2009 - Scientists using a continent-wide array of radio telescopes have made an extremely precise measurement of the curvature of space caused by the Suns gravity, and their technique promises a major contribution to a frontier area of basic physics.]]> Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2009 - A discovery about the moon made in the 1960s is helping researchers unlock secrets about Earth's ocean today. By applying a method of calculating gravity that was first developed for the moon to data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, known as Grace, JPL researchers have found a way to measure the pressure at the bottom of the ocean.]]> London UK (SPX) Aug 20, 2009 - UK scientists are helping us edge ever closer to finding the mysterious, theorized ripples in the fabric of space-time (known as gravitational waves) with the production of 25 new assemblies for the LIGO facility - a network of detectors designed to search for these elusive waves.]]> San Marcos TX (SPX) Jul 28, 2009 - Seven members of the Texas State University-San Marcos Chemistry Club flew an electrochemistry experiment aboard the NASA microgravity aircraft as part of NASA's Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program in June.]]> Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jun 23, 2009 - Ninety years ago, Arthur Eddington undertook an expedition to West Africa to confirm Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. Eddington was not, of course, an ethnologist or geologist but an astrophysicist and he observed the solar eclipse there on 29 May 1919.]]> Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jun 09, 2009 - Space and time are no longer what they used to be - absolute dimensions of the universe without regard to anything external. That is how Isaac Newton described them in the seventeenth century. In 1915, Albert Einstein completed his general theory of relativity, which fundamentally changed our view of space and time.]]> Paris, France (SPX) May 27, 2009 - ESA's gravity mission GOCE has achieved a first in the history of satellite technology. The sophisticated electric propulsion system has shown that it is able to keep the satellite completely free from drag as it cuts through the remnants of Earth's atmosphere - paving the way for the best gravity data ever.]]> Chicago IL (SPX) May 18, 2009 - A tiny fraction of a second following the big bang, the universe allegedly experienced the most inflationary period it has ever known.]]>