Abstract: To compete with other types of electrical machines as well as other manufacturers, the performance characteristics of axial-flux permanent-magnet (AFPM) machines should be improved.

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The new research could upend what’s known of the evolution of the most primitive mammals alive today ... the fossil had characteristics of the semiaquatic platypus: a thicker bone wall and ...

A joint research team has discovered a fossil belonging to a previously unknown genus and species of mammal in the Late Cretaceous (100–66 million-year-old) strata of Mongolia's Gobi Desert.

We naked apes need Band-Aids, but shedding the fur that speeds healing in other mammals may have helped us evolve other abilities. By Elizabeth Preston Watching wild baboons in Kenya, Akiko ...

Credit: Tsukasa Okoshi et al. A scientific team discovered a previously unknown species of tiny mammal in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. The animal lived during the Late Cretaceous period, when ...

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Humans aren’t the only mammals with sparse hair. Elephants, rhinos and naked mole rats also have very little hair. It’s true for some marine mammals, such as whales and dolphins, too. Scientists think ...