Linear motors have earned a reputation as highly precise and efficient alternatives to conventional rotary-to-linear transmission systems. Find out why, plus learn about the ultra-precise and ...

Generating mechanical motion in crystals using light or heat has increasingly become the focus of materials scientists. However, the conventional mechanism employed for the purpose produces slow ...

Flywheels offer new possibilities for high-efficiency, low-maintenance energy storage. Generating electricity from renewable solar and wind sources has two inherent problems: The sun doesn’t always ...

Scientists from The University of Manchester, in a collaboration led by ETH Zurich and including TU Wien and ICFO Barcelona, have achieved a major breakthrough by cooling the spinning motion of a ...