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And when bathed in sunlight, they display plenty of nongravitational acceleration, notes Jane Luu, an astronomer at Tufts University, who was not involved in the new research.

From Scientific American • Mar. 22, 2023

The results, published in Nature today, bring physicists one step closer to the distant goal of reconciling gravity with quantum mechanics, the theory underlying all of nongravitational physics.

From Scientific American • Mar. 10, 2021

In the end, they found that all known nongravitational forces would be at least 10 times smaller than the gravitational interaction.

From Scientific American • Mar. 10, 2021

A wild, nongravitational force called the Yarkovsky effect also will draw some special attention by OSIRIS.

From Scientific American • Sep. 10, 2014

Apparently this accounts for the nongravitational motions that astronomers had previously observed.

From Time Magazine Archive