Locomotion makes things move, and certain forms of locomotion make them move better than others. Those more effective types ...

Primate locomotion is the study of movements and postures in arboreal and terrestrial environments. Primates are masters of life in the trees, primarily due to their grasping hands and feet.

Neuroscientists have discovered how the brain distinguishes between visual motion occurring in the external world from that ...

Most of the electric motors we see these days are of the electromagnetic variety, and for good reason: they’re powerful. But there’s a type of motor that was invented before the ...

Ebru Demir, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics in Lehigh University’s P.C. Rossin College of ...

Locomotion Number 1 is set to make a triumphant return to Darlington later this year as the railway marks its momentous 200th ...

We report a high-throughput and label-free computational imaging technique that simultaneously measures in three-dimensional (3D) space the locomotion and angular spin of the freely moving heads ...

Dan Snow examines the development of the railways from their beginnings as track-ways for coal carts in the early 18th century to the pivotal technology for modern Britain. Find out more about ...

The work, which eventually ran to over 100,000 images, was carried out as research for the University of Pennsylvania between 1884 and 1887 and documents a series of human and animal subjects, each ...