This photo taken on Sept 29, 2025 shows an interior view of the Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility (CHIEF) in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo/Xinhua] ...

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Pests are, well, pesky because they simply won’t go away. And in a terrifying turn of events, scientists found that the fruit fly—a super common kitchen pest—adapts and survives under crushing ...

Expose an animal to extreme physical stress, and the expectation is simple: It will break down. But when UC Riverside scientists subjected fruit flies to forces many times stronger than Earth's ...

Moving hydraulic fluid through a system requires either a pump or compressor. Both achieve this goal, but through different operating methods. Pumps have the ability to move liquids or gases.

What would you do with a machine that makes gravity nearly two thousand times stronger than what you feel right now at your desk? In China, engineers have just brought that idea to life with CHIEF1900 ...

An innovative hypergravity centrifuge in China can handle up to 1,900 G-tons, which makes it possible to test future scenarios that would otherwise be invisible for decades or millenia. It can ...

China has surpassed its own hypergravity machine technology with another centrifuge that is currently the most powerful in the world China has claimed a decisive new lead in experimental physics with ...

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 ...

China has unveiled an extremely powerful “hypergravity machine” that can generate forces almost two thousand times stronger than Earth’s regular gravity. The futuristic-looking machine, called ...