One of the biggest mysteries in cosmology is the rate at which the universe is expanding. This can be predicted using the standard model of cosmology, also known as Lambda-cold dark matter (ΛCDM).

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has just proposed rescinding a critically important finding under the Clean Air Act that, according to The Baltimore Sun, “determined that carbon dioxide and ...

What goes up must come down — though not always in the way you’d expect. This is Newton’s Universal Law of Gravitation, and you can thank it for GPS, Google Earth and even the pictures beamed back ...

Isaac Newton lounging beneath an apple tree, suddenly getting bonked on the head by falling fruit, and boom—gravity is ...

We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature–one of the invisible threads that keeps the universe stitched together. But suppose that this is not true. Suppose ...

How did Newton derive the universal law of gravitation? originally appeared on Quora - the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by ...

A spallation neutron source has been used by physicists in Japan to search for possible violations of the inverse square law of gravity. By scattering neutrons off noble-gas nuclei, the researchers ...

MANE of the most interesting results of the discovery of the law of universal gravitation was the light that it threw on the nature of cometary movements, which had previously baffled astronomers. In ...

In general, a scientific law is the description of an observed phenomenon. It doesn't explain why the phenomenon exists or what causes it. The explanation for a phenomenon is called a scientific ...