Motor proteins are essential to life: without them, all cellular transport would grind to a halt. New results on the size of steps taken by one family of motors, the myosins, will fuel the debate ...

Levers are literally all around us. You body uses them to move, pick up a pen to sign your name and you’ll use mechanical advantage to make that ballpoint roll, and that can of soda doesn’t open ...

Years later, it started protruding through his skin, and he had surgery to remove it Arthur Lampitt wouldn’t consider himself a car aficionado, but his car was a part of him: He lived with a turn ...

Call it a turning point. For more than 50 years, an Illinois man had - unbeknownst to him at first - a 7-inch turn-signal lever from a 1963 Thunderbird stuck in his left forearm after an almost fatal ...