Anyone who’s used an overhead ceiling fan knows it can be a pain to work. Yanking its chain gets the motor running, but there’s no easy visual indication of what speed setting the fan is on. The ...

Courant researchers found a way to create gear mechanisms using water through fluid mechanics — how liquids and gases interact with themselves and other objects.  Published in Physical Review Letters, ...

How Bike Gears Work (And How To Shift Them) Road bike gears can be tricky to understand. There's often lots of buttons, ...

A liquid metal droplet can generate rotation without gears, changing how motors may work in soft and flexible machines.

Researchers have developed a new method for 3D printing objects with very different properties, including levels of hardness ...

Commercial aircraft can vary greatly in size and weight, from the Airbus A319, which comes in at just 40 tons when empty, to ...

Ask most conservationists to talk about their impact, and you’ll hear stories of forests protected, of species saved, or of new technologies making a difference. But if you take a step back from those ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling ...

Rei is the Deputy Lead for GameRant's Anime Team from Kashmir, situated in Beirut. He's an avid fan of anime and manga. Rei grew up watching anime and had a knack for writing ever since he was a kid, ...

Carrie McDonough receives funding from the U.S. EPA. She previously led the Pittsburgh chapter of Stand Up for Science and volunteers with Indivisible Pittsburgh, Casa San Jose and Pittsburgh ...

I recently sat down with ZOWIE representatives at the ZOWIE Media Tour in Budapest to gain a deeper understanding of the company’s broader strategy. In particular, I wanted to investigate how it works ...

Cambridge is rolling out its plans for bike lanes along Quincy St. and Kirkland St., a long-awaited project set to start construction this spring. The new bike lanes will extend between Sanders ...