Scientists have created the world's hottest engine running at temperatures hotter than those reached in the sun's core. The ...

Diesel engines can technically run backwards, though there's very little (if any) practical applications for this, especially ...

When put to the test, just about anyone can recall what the engine of a mid-60s Ford Cobra used for racing looked like. Typically topped with a pair of four-barrel carbs or, even better, a set of four ...

COLORADO SPRINGS—Lockheed Martin and NASA are poised to fire up the engine powering the X-59 low-boom demonstrator for the first time. The start of powered runs of the X-59’s single GE Aerospace F414 ...

Astron aerospace has shown a partial prototype of a new rotary combustion engine it claims runs at an extraordinary 60% thermal efficiency, burning totally clean with zero NOx emissions and nothing ...

The iron beast sits stolid in the pale October sunlight, massive bolts and shafts and valves motionless yet seemingly on the very verge of motion, like a dinosaur trapped in a tar pit. It was built in ...

The realm of pistons and internal combustion has been on an evolutionary arms race since the very first power stroke of the Big Bang that started the reciprocating piston revolution. Stronger, faster, ...

Everllence announced in a press release that it has confirmed the operation of ethanol at all load points in a 90-bore ME-LGIM (Liquid Gas Injection Methanol) engine in Japan. Everllence pioneered the ...

Folks have been experimenting with ethanol in modern combustion engines even when they weren't so modern. Nicolaus Otto, the inventor of the traditional four-cycle engine, used it to power one of his ...