In April, the Department of Physics’ Claudia de Rham published her book, The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity through Princeton University Press. A diver, a pilot, an astronaut ...

Kate Gardner reviews The Beauty of Falling: a Life in Pursuit of Gravity by Claudia de Rham Deep challenge Claudia de Rham uses examples from her own life, such as learning to scuba dive, to explain ...

We are all familiar with the concept of gravity, from the force that keeps us firmly on the ground, to the phenomenon that explains the orbits of the planets in the Solar System and the whole ...

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Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage. Theoretical physicist Claudia de Rham has made it her life mission to poke and prod at gravity's limits, whether it's by diving deep ...

Our first guest in this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast is Derek Sutherland, who is head of FuZE-Q physics at the US-based company Zap Energy. He explains how the US-based firm is ...

Claudia de Rham talks to Jim Al-Khalili about her unusual relationship with gravity and a twist of fate that shattered her dream of becoming an astronaut. Show more Claudia de Rham has rather an ...

It was always clear in my mind. When I started writing the book, it became clear that there could never have been anything else. I think gravity is fun and almost teasing us, right? It’s always there ...

THE fans roar into life, pumping air upwards at 260 kilometres per hour. Decked out in a baggy blue jumpsuit, red helmet and plastic goggles, Claudia de Rham steps forward into a glass chamber and… ...