The internal combustion engine, for all its mechanical sophistication, still runs on a 19th-century mechanical idea: pistons ...

Western Ontario and Jerry Mitrovica of the University of Toronto. Full size image available through contact Deep beneath Earth’s surface, continent-sized plumes of hot rock are floating upwards, ...

We all know how a conventional internal combustion engine works, with a piston and a crankshaft. But that’s by no means the only way to make an engine, and one of the slightly more unusual ...

Every car engine has quite a few details, ranging from cylinder count to compression ratios. How does changing the ...

LiquidPiston says its new XTS-210 solves the efficiency, lubrication and fuel type issues of Wankel rotary engines. This supercharged, liquid-cooled two-stroke claims 5X the power of an equivalent ...