The MICROSCOPE mission tested the weak equivalence principle with free-falling objects in a satellite. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

You can download the recipe for the OpenFlexure microscope from GitHub, feed it into a 3D printer and, combined with a little camera and computer, you have a way to ...

In 2016, a team of French physicists sent an ultra-sensitive, drag-free satellite called MICROSCOPE into space to study a 100-year old theory of Einstein’s that could change everything we know about ...

Researchers have developed a low-cost, origami-inspired microscope called the Foldscope. The device costs just pennies to produce and can provide up to 2,000x magnification. Scientists and educators ...

Low-income countries struggling to keep tuberculosis under control might get a boost from an unlikely source — giant African rats. The big rodents spotted hundreds of TB-positive sputum samples that a ...

In new studies published in Physical Review Letters and a special issue of Classical and Quantum Gravity on September 14, a team of researchers present the most precise test yet of the Weak ...

France’s Microscope satellite, carrying a set of ESA high-tech thrusters, lifted off last night from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, taking advantage of the same Soyuz launch that took ...

Free falling Artist's impression of the MICROSCOPE satellite. (Courtesy: CNES) The equality of inertial and gravitational mass central to Einstein’s general theory of relativity has been confirmed at ...

If fieldwork be your folly, then specimens be your burden. Hiking, stooping, bottling, bagging, cataloging, and then lugging back to the laboratory is a time honored tradition dating back to the ...

Apple is expected to unveil two iPhone 6 models this year that will both be bigger than any of the iPhones it launched so far. But while the display sizes for these devices appear to be clear, it’s ...