Book criticism often encourages speed: verdicts delivered briskly, ideas reduced to angles, art pressed into service of an argument. The two books under review here resist that pressure.
It was quite a leap. Conspiracy theorists are being brought back down to Earth after NASA scientists debunked a wild claim that the space agency was hiding knowledge about an event that could result ...
Seven Seconds Without Gravity? NASA Responds to Alarming August 12, 2026 Rumours (Image: Canva) A viral online rumour claims Earth will lose gravity for seven seconds during an August 12, 2026 solar ...
Another day, another pea-brained conspiracy theory that manages to bring together complementarily high levels of stupidity and insanity. Below, we take a closer look at the false claim, which—to be ...
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, an immensely important update to Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation, is currently our best approximation ...
There is a rumor going around online—on Reddit, Facebook, TikTok, and (I assume) Friendster—that gravity will stop working for seven seconds on August 12. Here is part of the warning posted online: In ...
A new theory suggests that gravity could possibly be the result of entropy. If true, this would mean that everything in the universe would fall apart if it all remained unchanged. This theory tries to ...
A VIRAL video has been making the rounds on social media, claiming that our planet will experience a terrifying phenomenon next month. The video alleges that Earth will lose gravity for seven seconds ...
NASA has debunked a wild conspiracy theory doing the rounds on social media. The bizarre theory claims that on August 12, at exactly 14.33 GMT (9.33 ET), Earth will lose gravity for seven seconds.
Every time a coffee mug drops, a satellite orbits or an astronaut floats, we are watching the same phenomenon play out under very different disguises. For centuries we have treated gravity as the ...
“The Earth will not lose gravity on Aug. 12, 2026.” That plain-language sentence from a NASA spokesperson is the fastest way to deflate a rumor that has been packaged online like a disaster-movie ...
The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...
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