Gears Have Powered Technology for Millenia. Scientists Just Made a Game-Changing Improvement.

A new study reimagines the 3,000-year-old technology using fluids, avoiding the most annoying limitations of teeth-driven ...
Science Daily

A deadly chemical frozen in ice may have sparked life on Earth

Hydrogen cyanide, a toxic chemical, may have helped spark the chemistry that led to life. When frozen, it forms crystals with ...

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, ...
Stevens Institute of Technology

Building the World’s First Graviton Detector

With support from the W. M. Keck Foundation, a Stevens–Yale collaboration is now transforming graviton detection from a ...