With direct injection, engines can run with higher compression ratios, higher boost, and higher efficiencies. The marvel has lead to widespread downsizing of engines, ditching large naturally ...

Researchers in South Korea have developed an organoid disease model and non-destructive stiffness analysis technology for evaluating the efficacy of new drugs for fatty liver disease. The research ...

It was with interest that we read the recent article by Safar et al. 1 We fully agree with the authors’ emphasis on the importance of studying the mechanical properties of arteries and the potential ...

An approach of solving the most fundamental and important geodetic tasks with usage of ellipsoidal chords (slant distances) proposed by Molodensky.

The formulations of the boundary element method for dynamic problems, whether acoustic or elastodynamic, that use a more straightforward fundamental solution and consequently require the use of Radial ...

Zhang Yimou, director of many of China’s most spectacular and successful movies, is to try his hand at sci-fi. He will direct a film adaptation of “The Three-Body Problem.” The project was announced ...

The celebrated auteur will tackle a Chinese-language feature adaptation of Liu Cixin's best-selling sci-fi book, which Netflix also brought to screen in its mega-budget series. By Abid Rahman, Patrick ...

Abstract: This paper presents a method for controlling the position and stiffness of a 2-DOF robot arm driven by three pairs of antagonistic actuators, which mimics the musculoskeletal system of human ...