Mechanical actions underlie much of what makes modern day society function, whether it’s electric motors, combustion engines, switches, levers, or the springs inside a toy blaster gun that propel foam ...

Mechanical metamaterials represent an exciting frontier in materials science, where the extraordinary properties of a material arise predominantly from its engineered structure rather than its ...

Real science has finally caught up to the science fiction of Iron Man’s transforming exoskeleton suit. In a paper published today in Science Robotics, engineers at Brigham Young University detail new ...

Even if you are focused on electronic hardware or software, you cannot help but be amazed by these mechanical marvels. Even if you are focused on electronic hardware or software, you cannot help but ...

On the face of it, keeping fluids contained seems like a simple job. Your fridge alone probably has a dozen or more trivial examples of liquids being successfully kept where they belong, whether it’s ...

Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) have identified the molecular mechanisms that allow our cells to adapt to, protect themselves against, and survive ...

In the brain, highly specific connections called synapses link nerve cells and transmit electrical signals in a targeted ...

A dormant 18th-century mechanical model of Mount Vesuvius has been brought back to life by engineering students at the ...

Altogether, this study dissects the spatiotemporal cellular and molecular mechanisms that control the behavior of skin stem cells in response to mechanical stretch and delineates step-by-step the ...

During metastasis, cancer cells actively interact with microenvironments of new tissues. How metastatic cancer cells respond to new environments in the secondary tissues is a crucial question in ...