Being inside a spinning Gravitron — a ride that typically looks like a silvery alien UFO — can feel like defying gravity. The floor of the ride disappears, but the riders don’t fall. Some can even ...

The incident was never reported to the Louisiana State Fire Marshal, the agency responsible for the regulation of amusement rides, but current state law doesn’t mandate reporting of “near-miss” ...

Firefighters were called to a Jersey shore amusement park Monday afternoon after a ride caught fire and sent a plume of smoke billowing above the boardwalk. Smoke could be seen billowing from the ...

In this week’s “Ask a Physicist” we tackle the question of whether you could spin yourself nauseous if the universe really were empty, and why so many scifi writers get artificial gravity wrong.

Darryl Thompson and Michael Atkins bought a home together in northeast Roanoke last year with dreams of a private backyard collection of carnival rides to amuse friends and family. So far, though, the ...