A team of New York University scientists has created a gear mechanism that relies on fluids to generate rotation. The ...

“We invented new types of gears that engage by spinning up fluid rather than interlocking teeth—and we discovered new ...

A team of New York University scientists has created a gear mechanism that relies on fluids to generate rotation. The ...

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Previously believed to be only human-made, a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism has been discovered in a common insect -- showing that evolution developed interlocking cogs long before we ...

For the first time, a gear mechanism has been discovered in nature – as opposed to a non-functioning gear patterns like those on the ‘cog wheel turtle’ or the ‘wheel bug’. The cogs are on the rear ...

Many mechanical devices have been inspired by examples in nature, but it’s not often that nature replicates something only known to be made by human beings. Meet Issus coeleoptratus, more commonly ...

If you think humans invented the kind of gears you find in an automobile transmission, think again. Scientists have discovered that the humble Issus, a plant hopping insect the size of a flea, has ...