An employee conducting routine maintenance at Tokyo Dome City Attractions reportedly died after becoming trapped in the ...

This is an important study that advances our understanding of the transition from quadrupedal to bipedal gait in a neuromechanical model of the Japanese macaque. The method and results are solid; the ...

Not revised: This Reviewed Preprint includes the authors’ original preprint (without revision), an eLife assessment, and public reviews. The article investigates how the Japanese macaque makes gait ...

Abstract: This study compares three power-take-off (PTO) mechanisms for wave energy converters—a flywheel -type pitch resonator and two pendulum variants (normal and inverted)—all designed to fit ...

It’s usually tough to tease out clear and resounding voter messages in off-year, hyperlocal elections. Not so much this time. Up and down the ballot, voters Tuesday were mostly going for whichever ...

Accelerometers are integrated into phones, cars, spacecraft, medical devices and a host of other applications. But their evolution from crude mechanical instruments to today’s microelectromechanical ...

Sam Gejdenson hasn’t given up hope. He doesn’t think the rest of us need to, either. He argued in an interview Tuesday that people horrified by the nation’s authoritarian spiral in the Trump era can ...

The pendulum will swing back. It is a phrase invoked repeatedly, with variation, since Donald Trump’s reelection last November. Cable news anchor Chris Cuomo, Senator Angus King, and pollster Nate ...

Divers found the Antikythera mechanism in a shipwreck in 1900. Zde via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 More than a century ago, a group of sponge divers discovered a shipwreck near the Greek ...

EXCLUSIVE: Phoebe Dynevor is set to star opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Pendulum, which Darren Aronofsky is producing and Black Swan scribe Mark Heyman is directing. Aronofsky will produce through ...

This study investigates the application of time-delay feedback active control to the anti-resonant frequency response in a Pendulum Tuned Mass Damper (PTMD) vibration reduction system. An optimization ...