China has quietly switched on a machine that can subject objects to gravity up to 1,900 times stronger than what we feel at Earth’s surface, compressing decades of wear, stress, and catastrophe into a ...

The Variable Gravity Machine (VGM) is a SABL insert that supports a wide variety of research in the life, physical, and material sciences aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The VGM allows ...

In a cavernous lab in eastern China, a metal giant is quietly rewriting the rules of gravity. The country has brought online a hypergravity centrifuge so powerful it can crush test materials with ...

Gravity is the force with which we’re most familiar. It’s what’s keeping you on the planet, even as you’re reading this.

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 ...