The ESA-owned Short Arm Human Centrifuge has been upgraded, installed and inaugurated at the Olympic Sport Centre Planica facility near Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. Soon to be home to ESA bedrest studies, ...

The human centrifuge has been a staple of space cinema and Bond movies for decades, and they’re still used to prepare astronauts and pilots for the effects of gravity shifts. But this Polish version ...

A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Aug. 2 in the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to celebrate the full operational capability, or F.O.C.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (WDTN) – A dedication ceremony will be held for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing’s human-rated centrifuge achieving full ...

The world's most advanced centrifuge will be dedicated this week at the 711th Human Performance Wing on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The lab’s 711th Human Performance Wing will dedicate the ...

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 ...

The Navy has described the torture chamber which it will build at Johnsville, Pa. to test the effect of the hops, drops and altitude changes of high-speed airplanes upon the human body. The Navy’s ...

A team of engineers from MIT may have brought us one step closer to keeping astronauts strong and healthy in space. They've created a centrifuge that will allow individuals to exercise whilst ...

I’m sitting somewhere in the middle of a former RAF base in Farnborough, strapped into a tiny recreated jet fighter cockpit, on the end of a huge mechanical contraption that wouldn’t look out of place ...

Some bands are bigger than you think they are. Case in point, British four-piece Glass Animals, who we have been covering since their early days, and are headlining shows this fall at New York’s Radio ...

Spoiler alert: group of fun-loving French folks build an animal-or-human-powered merry-go-round that spins fast enough to fling all takers into the lake (YouTube, embedded below). Actually, that’s ...