Winds of change? Company looks at weather's effect on ball
The wind blowing out at Wrigley Field. The tricky breeze in San Francisco. The heat in Los Angeles.
Jul 9, 2020
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The wind blowing out at Wrigley Field. The tricky breeze in San Francisco. The heat in Los Angeles.
Jul 9, 2020
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Not convinced yet that keeping your distance and wearing a mask is worth the trouble? Perhaps scientific evidence to the contrary will help.
May 14, 2020
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Anyone who looks to the stars also dreams of going to space. Turning this dream into reality depends on countless technological advances. One of these is new rocket and aircraft engines, which are becoming easier and cheaper ...
Feb 7, 2020
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Offshore wind power generation has become an increasingly promising source of renewable energy. Much about the aerodynamic effects of larger wind farms, however, remains poorly understood. New work in this week's Journal ...
Dec 12, 2019
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The Bloodhound, the darling of The Bloodhound LSR jet car project, has good reason to be praised as a speed rockstar, with speed now at 461mph (741km/h).
Diesel engines are widely used in transport the world over. Regulatory and legal efforts are afoot to reduce their use in some countries because of concerns about pollution. However, they are likely to remain a mainstay of ...
Jul 30, 2019
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KAIST researchers have developed mobile software platform technology that allows a mobile application (app) to be executed simultaneously and more dynamically on multiple smart devices. Its high flexibility and broad applicability ...
Jul 19, 2019
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Industrial robots are now widely used and are indispensable in car manufacturing and in other fields. Conventional robot hands are suitable for grasping hard objects of fixed form, whereas it is not easy to grasp complicated ...
Jul 16, 2019
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Since their invention in the late 1700s when French-born British physicist Denis Papin, the inventor of the pressure cooker, proposed the piston principle, pistons have been used to harness the power of fluids to perform ...
Jun 6, 2019
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Swimming is a form of locomotion employed by many organisms across a wide range of scales in nature. Microorganisms with small mass that encounter dominance of viscous forces in the medium require a change in shape that does ...