This photo taken on Sept 29, 2025 shows an interior view of the Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility (CHIEF) in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo/Xinhua] ...

Pests are, well, pesky because they simply won’t go away. And in a terrifying turn of events, scientists found that the fruit fly—a super common kitchen pest—adapts and survives under crushing ...

Expose an animal to extreme physical stress, and the expectation is simple: It will break down. But when UC Riverside scientists subjected fruit flies to forces many times stronger than Earth's ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission launch on April 1, 2026. With space flight poised to become more common, experiments to understand hypergravity will likely only become more relevant. Expose an animal to ...

Deep beneath the city of Hangzhou, engineers recently completed the installation of a massive rotating machine. The device sits inside a 230-square-meter circular subterranean chamber positioned 15 ...

Having a reliable air compressor is handy for many reasons. The big one is the fact you don't have to leave your house to air up your tires, a basketball, or anything else of that nature. If you have ...

Expose an animal to extreme physical stress, and the expectation is simple: It will break down. Common fruit fly. (Jayantibhai Movaliya/iStock/Getty) But when UC Riverside scientists subjected fruit ...

Abstract: This article presents the conception and development of a centrifuge for hypergravity research use. Experiments were recorded via a digital camera and the images acquired were processed for ...

Humans can tolerate only brief bursts of extreme gravitational force. Fighter pilots train to endure high G-loads, but even they struggle beyond 9G. At higher levels, blood drains from the brain, ...

Expose an animal to extreme physical stress, and the expectation is simple: It will break down. But when UC Riverside scientists subjected fruit flies to forces many times stronger than Earth's ...