An outside consultant evaluated the department after four fires that resulted in the deaths of nine firefighters. The consultant found training needed to be improved, and that has been a focus of ...

Grab paint, pencils, markers, canvases, and just about everything else you could need to express your artistic talent on deep ...

We set out to explore whether a bicycle could shift gears automatically using nothing but mechanical force from the rider. Starting with a full teardown, we design and machine entirely new components ...

As an astrophysicist, my world revolves around the wonders of space and the mysteries of the universe. This means I can be a ...

A senior design engineer explains how engineering advancements are improving gearbox performance. Insights include how precision machining, improved materials and smarter ...

Yet swarms of fireflies clearly exercise a level of control over when they light up, and they do so only in specialized organs, and those are aspects scientists are still keen to understand better.

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams prepared the International Space Station for the addition a new solar array during a spacewalk on Wednesday, March 18, 2026.

Every multicellular organism, from tiny worms to humans, elephants, and whales, needs a way for their cells to connect with each other to form tissues, organs, and organize their overall body plan.

The turbocharger is more popular than ever, appearing on the Ford Mustang, the Dodge Charger, and the Chevrolet Corvette. It's used in Ferrari and Lamborghini products, too, and even with the rise of ...

Differentials are what allow the wheels on a vehicle to actually move around effectively. Open differentials are common, but ...

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger developed quantum theory’s wave equation, which describes quantum systems as waves that ...

Using a new method, physicists found a way to 'catapult' electrons across solar materials in quadrillionths of a second.