mechanical engineering

Centrifugal force from a high-speed rotating water ring enables gripping rough surfaces

Innovative coating could reduce toilet water consumption by half, increase water sustainability

The new device, developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo, combines radar technology with artificial intelligence to detect unattended children or animals with 100 percent accuracy

Engineers from the University of Illinois and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are a step closer to human-operated robotics with their two-legged unit, named Little Hermes

Complex lattices that change in response to stimuli open a range of applications in electronics, robotics, and medicine

A better understanding of how mitochondria release energy could point to new targets for treating obesity and cancer

Wearing a flower brooch that blooms before your eyes sounds like magic. KAIST researchers have made it real with robotic muscles

A self-healing membrane that acts as a reverse filter, blocking small particles and letting large ones through, is the "straight out of science fiction" work of a team of Penn State mechanical engineers

A new manufacturing technique developed by researchers from Binghamton University, State University at New York may be able to avoid the "coffee ring" effect that plagues inkjet printers

To restore the grasslands of the Great Plains, a Nebraska ecologist says, bring back high intensity fires