A new microgravity tower will allow scientists to study, in a reduced-gravity environment, many diverse phenomena in many fields including nanomaterials, new materials, fire-safety, metallurgy, ...

It’s almost impossible to replicate the effects of zero gravity here on Earth, and that’s one of the reasons why scientists are willing to spend so much of their funding to send experiments to the ...

The gravity-based energy storage tower developed by Energy Vault has reached commercialization, with the company signing an agreement with DG Fuels to supply 1.6 GWh of energy storage. The tower will ...

, as he and visitors watch a silver rectangle box the size of a small refrigerator rise slowly inside a metal-framed tower in the engineering building atrium. Weislogel, a mechanical engineering ...