Isaac Newton formulated his theory of gravity as an action at a distance: a planet instantly feels the influence of another celestial body, no matter the distance between them. This characteristic ...

This article is more than 8 years old. Verlinde's model uses this connection between thermodynamics (heat, energy and forces) and information through a mathematical method known as the holographic ...

Despite decades of searching, the "dark matter" thought to hold galaxies together is still nowhere to be found. Matthew Chalmers describes how some physicists think it makes more sense to change our ...

The existence of dark matter is generally accepted by the sort of scientists who care about that kind of thing. After all, it’s a pretty robust explanation for why some stars and galaxies around the ...

A new model of the Universe suggests that modifying Newton's theory of gravity could do away with the need for dark matter. The model instead relies on an as-of-yet undiscovered form of gravity to ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, resisting every attempt to merge Einstein’s smooth ...

Physicists are quietly entertaining one of the strangest ideas in modern cosmology: that the cosmos we see might be only half ...

For a few centuries, physicists were comfortable with our laws of gravity. Then, something interesting happened in the 1900s, as astronomers measured the rotational speed of galaxies. Something was ...

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Dark matter is currently the most widely accepted hypothesis for explaining some of the weirdness we see in the cosmos – but it’s not the only possibility. Now, a team of astronomers has discovered ...

Its been a while since we’ve had a high-quality shoot-em-up (SHMUP), and Dark Gravity is seeking to change that. With a striking low-poly aesthetic and frantic action, Dark Gravity will be launching ...