Gears Have Powered Technology for Millenia. Scientists Just Made a Game-Changing Improvement.

A new study reimagines the 3,000-year-old technology using fluids, avoiding the most annoying limitations of teeth-driven ...
ZME Science

This Touchless Gear System Uses Fluid Dynamics to Transfer Power and Rotation Without Any Teeth

Engineers reinvent the 5,000-year-old gear using fluids instead of solid teeth.
Game Rant

New Xbox Game Pass Update Adds 48 More Games to 'Stream Your Own Game' Library

A new Xbox Game Pass update for January 2026 has just added another 48 games to the platform's 'Stream Your Own Game' library ...
Earth.com

Mars may help set the timing of Earth’s ice ages

Researchers uncover how Mars affects Earth’s orbit, offering new insight into the planetary forces behind ice ages.
IEEE

Instantaneous Angular Speed-Based Fault Detection for Planet and Cycloidal Gears in Rotary Vector Reducers

Abstract: In rotary vector (RV) reducers, both the planet gears and cycloidal gears are mounted on the crankshafts and rotated at the same speed. As a result, the rotational order/frequency of the ...

What is going on with 3I/ATLAS? Evidence undermines alien spaceship theory

Scientists found new evidence (or lack thereof) disproving the conspiracy theory that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is alien ...

How astronomers plan to detect the signatures of alien life in the atmospheres of distant planets

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

NASA's Pandora telescope will study stars in detail to learn about the exoplanets orbiting them

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring ...