If there's one thing everybody knows about space, it's that there's no gravity once you leave the Earth's atmosphere. We all know that don't we? It's actually not true — and an attempt at a massive ...

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"We asked what happens if the thermodynamic process behind gravity is not just heat flow," Magueijo explained. "In ordinary thermodynamics, heat is almost never the whole story: There may also be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The nearby Andromeda galaxy with older stars highlighted in blue. A new theory of quantum gravity could help explain why more ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. While general relativity is now the central theory of gravity, it fails to explain some cosmological phenomena and mysteries, such as ...