Despite decades of feverish and fraudulent research, the perpetual motion machine remains elusive. By perpetual motion, gadgeteers really mean perpetual work. An object in motion, as Galileo and ...

Perpetual motion machines are impossible, right? They violate the laws of thermodynamics. And yet people have been trying to engineer one for centuries. YouTuber gzumwalt posted a video of what looks ...

I'm not usually a big fan of the perpetual motion machine scene. However this month's American Scientist had an interesting article about using reversible chemical reactions to create heat engines ...

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