Researchers at IPhT (CEA, CNRS) and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have shown that gravity—and with it, ...

Gravity keeps Earth stable and habitable, holding the atmosphere, oceans, buildings, and people firmly in place. Without it, air and water would vanish into space, and life would end almost instantly.

For more than a century, gravity has been the immovable backdrop of modern physics, a force that can be described and exploited but never truly switched off. Now a former NASA engineer says he has ...