{"id":236170,"date":"2026-04-29T19:26:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T00:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/gravitys-subtle-effect-on-light-could-improve-groundwater-volcano-and-carbon-storage-monitoring"},"modified":"2026-04-29T19:26:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T00:26:57","slug":"gravitys-subtle-effect-on-light-could-improve-groundwater-volcano-and-carbon-storage-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/gravitys-subtle-effect-on-light-could-improve-groundwater-volcano-and-carbon-storage-monitoring","title":{"rendered":"Gravity\u2019s subtle effect on light could improve groundwater, volcano and carbon storage monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gravitys-subtle-effect-on-light-could-improve-groundwater-volcano-and-carbon-storage-monitoring.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study by University of Wollongong (UOW) physicist Dr. Enbang Li has demonstrated that gravity can subtly influence the behavior of light, a breakthrough that could underpin future technologies for monitoring groundwater, tracking glacier melt, locating mineral deposits and detecting underground changes linked to volcanic activity and carbon storage.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-026-44668-1\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, published in <i>Scientific Reports<\/i>, shows early experimental evidence that photons\u2014particles of light\u2014interact with Earth\u2019s gravitational field in measurable ways, laying the groundwork for a new generation of ultra-sensitive gravity sensors.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Li said the work could lead to more precise and compact next-generation sensing technologies for environmental monitoring, navigation and underground mapping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study by University of Wollongong (UOW) physicist Dr. Enbang Li has demonstrated that gravity can subtly influence the behavior of light, a breakthrough that could underpin future technologies for monitoring groundwater, tracking glacier melt, locating mineral deposits and detecting underground changes linked to volcanic activity and carbon storage. The study, published in Scientific Reports, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}