China, on September 29, launched the world’s largest centrifuge in terms of capacity. The machine, called CHIEF1300, can reportedly generate up to 300 times Earth’s gravity (300G) for a load weighing ...

An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 29, 2025 shows the Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility (CHIEF) in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. Photo: Xinhua This photo ...

The world's largest-capacity centrifuge — the first of three main centrifuges housed inside the Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility — has recently begun operating in ...

Scientists from NASA and two U.S. universities are using a 20-G centrifuge machine that can simulate up to 20 times the terrestrial gravity to evaluate the effects of hypergravity on humans. This ...

Engineers have built a compact human centrifuge with an exercise component: a cycle ergometer that a person can pedal as the centrifuge spins. The centrifuge was sized to just fit inside a module of ...

Space travel is incredibly taxing on the human body – and ironically, one of the best ways to simulate that is by staying in bed for long periods. The lack of gravity in space means that muscles and ...

Researchers have developed a machine to simulate the effects of Earth’s gravity in space to alleviate the problems of space travel. Astronauts who spend a long time in the micro-gravity environment of ...

The force at work when you twirl a ball around your head on the end of a string can be harnessed and put to work to propel a boat through water. To many engineers, the notion of harnessing gravity to ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station have a number of exercise options, including a mechanical bicycle bolted to the floor, a weightlifting machine strapped to the wall, and a strap-down ...