To study extreme phenomena, scientists need some extreme equipment. In its second engineering breakthrough within the week, China has unveiled the world’s largest centrifuge—a device using centrifugal ...

China on Monday put into operation the core equipment of its super-gravity centrifuge simulation and experiment facility, including the world's largest centrifuge with a capacity of 1,300 g·t (gravity ...

A couple of commenters expressed concern over the use of centrifugal force after my rant on the use of the word force. So, what is the deal with these two terms? Are they ok to use? Are they real ...

SpinLaunch is raising $30 million to use large centrifuges to power catapult to launch payloads into space. They use large centrifuges to store energy and will then rapidly transfer that momentum into ...

This video shows SwRI scientist Con Tsang’s 100% acceleration ride on a SpaceShip Two profile on 11 May 2011 as part of the NASTAR Center’s suborbital scientist astronaut training program. Strapping ...

The human body isn't built to fly, but we do it anyway, and that's how scientists started to discover the human g-tolerance, or how much acceleration a person can take that causes the perception of ...