As demonstrated by Garage 54, piston rings struggle to provide a tight seal around a square. Piston rings would need to be manufactured specifically for a square piston, and they still would not ...

Film at Lincoln Center announced Currents for the 63rd New York Film Festival, taking place from September 26 through October ...

The Currents Centerpiece is “Mare’s Nest,” the newest feature from “Two Years at Sea” director Ben Rivers that will make its ...

Queen's legendary guitarist, Brian May, known for iconic solos, also holds a PhD in astrophysics. His thesis, completed in ...

In 1905, Einstein established relativity under the condition of denying the absolute space-time valid in Newtonian mechanics. In those days, the quantum theory was also established by accepting De ...

Whiplash is an injury caused by the neck bending forcibly forward and then backward, or vice versa. The injury usually involves the muscles, discs, nerves, and tendons in the neck.

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the Solar System? The idea has been around since before the ...

The New Scientist Book Club has just finished reading Adam Roberts's novel Lake of Darkness. Some of us loved it – but some ...

Alex Foster, the author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, Circular Motion, on imagining a world that is ...