High-tech features are making vehicles more expensive and difficult to repair, putting pressure on already strained car owners and posing an existential crisis for mom-and-pop mechanics, analysts and ...

After driving straight into deep floodwater, this van completely gave up — but the driver still wasn’t ready to accept reality. Standing ankle-deep in water with the hood open, he tried to diagnose an ...

Every morning, the chief executive of Ford Motor F3.00%increase; up pointing triangle checks the same number: How big is the nationwide mechanic shortage at its dealerships? Lately it has hovered ...

Quantum mechanics is both the most powerful theory physicists have ever devised and the most baffling. On the one hand, countless experiments have confirmed its predictions; the theory undergirds ...

A worldwide shortage of aircraft mechanics is causing delays, cancellations and leading to a push to teach more people how to fix planes. At Cincinnati State Technical and Community College in Ohio, ...

Across commercial airlines, cargo operators, business aviation, and maintenance repair organizations (MROs), the shortage of FAA-certified aircraft mechanics has become a defining challenge for the ...

KENT, Ohio—Just after 7 a.m. on a recent morning, Ted Hummel leapt up onto the front bumper of a 2019 Ford F-150 and reached under the hood to disconnect a pair of oxygen sensor connectors. It is the ...

The tipping culture in the United States can be a difficult to understand for some. Tipping too much, or tipping too little, can send the wrong message across, and, as a result, many people do stress ...

One hundred years ago on a quiet, rocky island, German physicist Werner Heisenberg helped set in motion a series of scientific developments that would touch nearly all of physics. There, Heisenberg ...

The tool landscape of the modern mechanic is vast. Anyone working on combustion engines — or EV propulsion systems, for that matter — likely has a massive collection of hand and power tools. With ...