ABB recently set a new world record for industrial motor efficiency of 99.13%. But what's behind this breakthrough, and how ...

A very small 'molecular motor', about 1/100,000 the diameter of human hair, was created from just 16 atoms. Developed by the Swiss Federal Institute for Materials Testing (Empa) and the Swiss Federal ...

Molecular motors are molecule-sized machines that are capable of transforming an energy source (chemical, light, heat, etc) into kinetic motion, and the human body has millions of them. Take the ATP ...

New quantum materials that promise to propel the communications of the future, an AI-driven search to uncover the fundamental laws of physics, and a project to build biomolecular motors have been ...

Using a combination of experimental and theoretical approaches, LMU research groups led by Prof. Claudia Veigel (Biomedical Center) and Prof. Erwin Frey (Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical ...

When you are trying to get from A to B, friction is both friend and foe. Friction between tyres and the road allows a car to be steered, for example, whereas axle friction reduces the vehicle’s fuel ...

Some might be surprised to learn that a handful of local community college students have been building a genuine rocket motor on campus in their free time. But that is exactly what’s been happening ...

Newton’s first law of motion is a thing of simplistic beauty. In fact, it’s so beautifully simple that it is, for most people, the only thing they remember from Grade 10 physics: “A body in motion ...