In terms of speed and agility, flagella-powered bacteria would leave Olympic swimmers for dead. They swim hundreds of body lengths in a second, and can change direction in a fraction of that time. The ...

Here’s an update on a battery charging issue one reader was experiencing. Gotta love a tale with a happy ending! – SM Scott writes: I just wanted to say belated thanks to everyone reading Piston Slap: ...

I seem to recall rumors of a Cadillac television commercial (possibly from the late eighties to early nineties) where a Cadillac sporting machine guns shot Japanese import automobiles. I guess they ...

This story was originally published by The Daily Yonder. On a sunny, 85-degree day in August of 2025, some 9,300 oysters were loaded into ice-filled containers on southern Maine’s Casco Bay. The boat ...

NORTH WEBSTER — The Antique Outboard Motor Club will hold its 2025 fall antique outboard motor show and swap meet Saturday, Sept. 20, at North Webster Town Park on the west shore of Webster Lake.

Brett T. Evans has more than a decade of experience driving, writing about, and evaluating automobiles. His early career comprised writing about pre- and post-war classic cars, as well as late-model ...

I just wanted to say belated thanks to everyone reading Piston Slap: I got my mom a solar charger with the OBD connector and put the solar panel under the sunroof (which she never uses). It gets ...

Abstract: The paper designs a composite controller, including a recursive positive position feedback (RPPF) controller and a feedforward-feedback controller, to suppress resonance and eliminate lag ...