Magnetic gears represent a transformative approach to power transmission, utilising magnetic fields to transmit torque between rotating shafts without physical contact. This contactless operation ...

Engineering legend has it that Atlas, doomed to perpetually bear the weight of the world on his shoulders, lamented, "Give me a lever long enough, and I can move the world." Atlas realized that levers ...

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Despite all the benefits of a CVT transmission, it does have some drawbacks. A gear-based CVT is looking to address these drawbacks, but how does it work?

The study, published January 13 in Physical Review Letters, replaces the metal or plastic cogs of conventional gears with controlled flows of liquid. In their experiments, ...