In my first months as a physics journalist nearly a decade ago, I kept running into an inscrutable string of characters: AdS/CFT. Thoroughly intimidated, I decided to just ignore it. But I couldn’t ...

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Glad they cleared that one up. Viral conspiracy theories that Earth’s gravity will briefly vanish on Wednesday — purportedly causing a cataclysm the government is hiding — are entirely untrue, NASA ...

If the internet is to be believed, Earth is about to have a very strange seven seconds. A viral conspiracy theory known as "Project Anchor" claims the planet will somehow lose gravity on Aug. 12, 2026 ...

If your social media feed has suddenly turned into a physics classroom, you're not alone. A viral claim racing across TikTok, Facebook and other platforms says Earth will somehow lose gravity for ...

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A small causal diamond used as a tiny local laboratory for deriving gravity from thermal physics. Heat flows in and out across the light-like boundaries of the diamond, allowing the authors to ask ...

Have you heard the rumor online that the Earth’s gravity will be turned off for 7 seconds this August 12th? If you have, don’t panic. This is not going to happen. The original conspiracy theory that ...

Gravity varies over the Earth’s surface, and it is weakest underneath Antarctica Modeling of rock movements over millions of years reveals that this “gravity hole” has gotten stronger over time Future ...

It was quite a leap. Conspiracy theorists are being brought back down to Earth after NASA scientists debunked a wild claim that the space agency was hiding knowledge about an event that could result ...

You may have heard people say that aboard the International Space Station (ISS) there's "zero gravity," but in fact, gravity is still very much present. The station orbits Earth at an altitude of ...