I spent many years working in rigging and rope access on offshore oil platforms, where I played with loads, angles, line pulls, and sheave-block friction ... t need the extra force that a ratchet ...

Through a multi-university collaboration, researchers at Virginia Tech have discovered a new, solid lubricating mechanism ...

Defining "friction fraction," the art of perfect scissoring, and calling out "diet homophobe," subtle homophobia in disguise, on this week’s Queer Urban Dictionary.

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of international researchers, led by the University of Göttingen, has studied how the f ...

Most dams in this country are straight, not curved. The arch dam ... when turned on its side, the force of the water behind the dam. The arch dam is best suited to narrow valleys with solid ...

SKY FORCE is the story of two brave pilots. The year is 1965. India and Pakistan are on the verge of a war. Kumar Om Ahuja (Akshay Kumar) is a group captain of the Indian Air Force and is ...

Researchers at the University of Göttingen discovered that the Neotethys oceanic plate beneath the Arabian and Eurasian continents is fracturing horizontally. This structural shift is affecting ...

Neal Bircher with a number plate representing Gloucestershire, the county of his birth Sales of personalised number plates have more than doubled over the past decade, figures obtained by the BBC ...

Abstract: Force plates utilizing various principles capable of simultaneously measuring vertical and shear forces have been developed to analyze ground reaction force (GRF) in studies of animal ...