A new paper analyzes the benefits of this engine—which is almost twice as efficient as regular NTR engines—and the many ...

This year's episode of Punkin Chunkin is coming up (I think tomorrow). Discovery just showed a teaser commercial with the specifications for one team's machine. If you are not familiar with Punkin ...

The Johnsville human centrifuge—the machine everyone loved to hate—was operated by the Navy at its Naval Air Development Center (later the Naval Air Warfare Center) in Warminster, Pennsylvania ...

The situation would have left the Pentagon without a human-rated centrifuge as the Air Force worked to build a new one at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. So the Brooks machine got a new lease on ...

The Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility might have taken the whole thing too far by housing a machine that spins so fast it generates 1,900 times the Earth's ...

From a rotating object's point of view — say, the laundry spinning in a washing machine — you would experience centrifugal force. What is the difference between centripetal and centrifugal force?

Centrifugal juicers ... quality of juice which preserves its flavor and has a long shelf life. These machines don’t come cheap, and would be best for only the most serious of juicers.