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NIST scientists Stephan Schlamminger (left) and Vincent Lee examine the torsion balance they used to measure the gravitational constant, big G

A New Big G Measurement Could Help Physics End One of Its Oldest Experimental Fights

Researchers have produced an unusually careful new measurement of the gravitational constant, offering a potential path toward resolving the long-running mismatch between experiments.

Key Takeaways

Researchers produced a highly controlled new measurement of the gravitational constant.
The work revisits the torsion-balance method with modern calibration and a decade of uncertainty analysis.

DT Editorial Team·Apr 25, 2026·via newscientist.com

A gravity test at cosmic scale adds weight to the dark matter picture

A large study highlighted by Gizmodo found that observations of the universe’s biggest structures remain consistent with Newtonian and Einsteinian gravity, weakening the case that modified gravity alone explains cosmolog

Key Takeaways

The article says a large new study found cosmic-scale observations remain consistent with standard gravity.
That weakens explanations based solely on modifying gravity at large scales.

DT Editorial Team·Apr 18, 2026·via gizmodo.com