You see this all the time in textbooks: This is often described as "the acceleration due to gravity". Is this really the best thing to call this? No. A better name would be "the local gravitational ...

I had an interesting thought, spurred on by a discussion I ran across online about firing guns in space. Apparently, smokeless powder contains its own oxidizer and so you could shoot normal firearms ...

Freefalling: the new sensor compares the acceleration due to gravity experienced by two clouds of cold atoms. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Evgenia-Fux) A quantum gravity ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. For gravitation, the big lesson from Einstein is the equivalence ...