Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet—and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where gravity is slightly weaker than expected. Scientists have traced this “gravity ...

Quote of the day by Newton: 1915 changed physics forever. In that year, Albert Einstein published the general theory of relativity and reshaped our understanding of gravity and spacetime. For 228 ...

Have you ever watched a mile-long freight train rumble by and wondered how one locomotive can pull more than a hundred fully loaded cars? The locomotive weighs maybe 150 metric tons, and each car is ...

A team of geophysicists has traced the origins of Earth’s most extreme gravitational anomaly, a vast depression beneath ...

Ensuring your plants get the right amount of water is a challenging task, and lugging around a watering can is hard work. Here are some hands-off alternatives.

The comeback of the kakapo is one of the world’s greatest conservation success stories. But seeing one in the flesh is still ...

For Rooney, the history of timekeeping has many pivotal moments - but three he picks out when talking to DCD are the invention of the pendulum and the balance spring in the 1600s, and centuries later, ...

Phil Lord and Chris Miller direct Gosling (and a charming little friend) in this enormously entertaining and genuinely inspiring adaptation of Andy Weir's other smash hit novel set in space.

Venus’ surface has long been hidden beneath thick clouds and sparse data, but new research is beginning to illuminate what ...

Kaity and Robbie Morris had to pivot and re-plan their wedding within a week ...

In northern latitudes and high altitudes, permafrost stays frozen year-round, holding mountain summits together. As global temperatures rise, much of it thaws, loosening soil and increasing landslide ...

Marking International Women’s Day, The Independent has compiled its annual list of the 50 most influential women across the ...