Fluid gears rotate without teeth, offering new mechanical flexibility

A team of New York University scientists has created a gear mechanism that relies on fluids to generate rotation. The ...

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This Touchless Gear System Uses Fluid Dynamics to Transfer Power and Rotation Without Any Teeth

Engineers reinvent the 5,000-year-old gear using fluids instead of solid teeth.

Liquid gears could challenge 5,000 years of mechanical engineering

The study, published January 13 in Physical Review Letters, replaces the metal or plastic cogs of conventional gears with controlled flows of liquid. In their experiments, ...
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Remnants of spills on Renaissance-era textbook reveal recipes for 'curing' ailments with lizard heads and human feces

A novel biochemical analysis of a Renaissance medical text has successfully recovered centuries-old proteins that might be ...

New class of strong magnets uses earth-abundant elements, avoids rare-earth metals

Georgetown University researchers have discovered a new class of strong magnets that do not rely on rare-earth or precious ...

94 Random Facts That Nobody Really Asked For, But They Are Still Fun To Know

Learning doesn’t always mean flipping through heavy textbooks or sitting in a long lecture. Sometimes, it just takes ...
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The Public Baths of Ancient Pompeii Were Actually Pretty Gross—Until the Romans Built an Aqueduct

Hygienic conditions were poor in the city's older bathing facilities, a new study reveals. The analysis sheds light on ...
Nature

Mechanical and structural properties and devices articles from across Nature Portfolio

This work proposes an innovative method of 3D skeleton preconstruction-infiltration filling to construct a 3D pristine graphene@pyrocarbon skeleton in AZ91D, improving electromagnetic interference ...