For over a hundred years, schoolchildren around the world have learned that ice melts when pressure and friction are applied.

SHINCLIFFE, ENGLAND—In 1983, archaeological divers located the wooden framework of a structure at the bottom of the River Wear in Shincliffe, just outside of Durham. The underwater team had been ...

Jinyang Li’s cinema doesn’t unfold — it drifts, like mist over still water, revealing its emotional depths only to those patient enough to sit with silence. Born in Chongqing, educated in ...

Fifty years since its discovery, scientists have finally worked out how a molecular machine found in mitochondria, the 'powerhouses' of our cells, allows us to make the fuel we need from sugars, a ...

This may lead to unsuitable design and may cause undesirable damages to the structure. To solve this problem, in recent years the Performance-based Plastic Design (PBPD) method which considers the ...

A rare "triple-A-frame" home in Delaware County with two detached "pod" dwellings has come on the market.

The durability of membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs), a key component of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), is particularly affected by the frame sealing structure, which is often ...

Students use the water displacement method to find the volume of different rods that all have the same mass. They calculate the density of each rod and use the characteristic density of each material ...

However, it is difficult to solve the topology optimization problem for a long-and-thin structure with variable cross-section using conventional algorithm. In order to solve this problem, a new method ...