As an engineer working with electric motors and generators, I've kept an eye open for software that more completely analyzes these machines. Maxwell Version 10 may end the search. lt uses finite ...

It used to be a staple of junior high physics class to build some sort of motor with paperclips or wire. A coil creates a magnetic field that makes the rotor move. In the process of moving, brushes ...

Nagoya University scientists in Japan and colleagues at Yale University in the US have uncovered details of how the bacterial propeller, known as the flagellum, switches between counterclockwise and ...