Mechanical actions underlie much of what makes modern day society function, whether it’s electric motors, combustion engines, switches, levers, or the springs inside a toy blaster gun that propel foam ...

Researchers at UCL have solved a major piece of the puzzle that makes up the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism, a hand-powered mechanical device that was used to ...

The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

A hybrid computer uses rotating mechanical beams for memory and electrical contacts for logic, performing reprogrammable computation through physical motion in environments where conventional ...

Real science has finally caught up to the science fiction of Iron Man’s transforming exoskeleton suit. In a paper published today in Science Robotics, engineers at Brigham Young University detail new ...

As progress is made in the performance of semiconductor devices, changes in materials and processing methods are regularly required. The trend towards miniaturizing these devices integrally involves ...

The field of geotechnical engineering has long recognized the critical role of water-rock interactions in influencing the ...

For as busy as things can get at the grocery store on a typical afternoon just before the dinner hour, at least the modern experience has one thing going for it: it’s relatively quiet. Aside from the ...