In the quest for more efficient commercial aircraft to help reduce fuel consumption, weight reduction without compromising safety is one of the most obvious areas of focus. Researchers at the European ...

Construction of the Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility (CHIEF) with the largest capacity worldwide kicked off in Hangzhou, E China's Zhejiang. (CREDIT: ifeng) Set to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China has activated the world's most advanced hypergravity machine, aiming to deepen scientific understanding. The system, ...

The smallest flowering plant on Earth might become a nutritious foodstuff for astronauts in the future, as well as a highly efficient source of oxygen. To help test their suitability for space, ...

After holding onto the record for possessing the world's most powerful centrifuge (or hypergravity machine) for close to three decades, the U.S. ceded that title to China in 2025. When China's new ...

In eastern China, a groundbreaking machine has just been unveiled. The CHIEF project aims to simulate extreme physical forces to explore natural phenomena that cannot otherwise be recreated. The ...

If alien life is out there, it may be able to exploit more-extreme environments than scientists think, because huge gravitational forces don't seem to pose much of a problem for microbes. Subscribe to ...

Set to transform the landscape of hypergravity research, a cutting-edge facility is rising in Hangzhou, China. Known as the Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility (CHIEF), ...

Several different species of bacteria can survive and reproduce in “hypergravity” more than 400,000 times stronger than that of the Earth, a new study reports. The find suggests that alien life could ...