A best-yet measurement of one of general relativity’s most mind-boggling effects is “another feather in Einstein’s cap” ...

One of the main challenges of desert rail operations is maintaining functional track and ballast. Professor Hannes Gräbe of the Chair in Railway Engineering at the University of Pretoria explains how ...

GXBeam is a pure Julia implementation of Geometrically Exact Beam Theory, originally based on the open source code GEBT and its associated papers[1] [2], though it has since been augmented with a ...

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Overhead pick-and-place gantries are an important part of modern automotive plants, moving and positioning parts with the speed, precision, and reliability that high-volume production demands.

Millions of asteroids orbit the Sun. Smaller fragments often brush the Earth’s atmosphere to light up the sky as meteors. Once every few centuries, a meteoroid has sufficient size to cause regional ...

We demonstrate a novel approach to X-ray ptychography, a phase-sensitive scanning microscopy method. By replacing the conventional sample scanning approach with a beam-scanning via reflective optics, ...

Researchers have demonstrated that applying plaster to reinforced concrete (RC) beams significantly improves their structural performance and moment capacity after exposure to uncontrolled fire. The ...