I'm not joking." He may not have been joking, but we failed to find convincing evidence that wood pipes carry natural gas in the U.S. today. Wood did have a place in the history of natural gas ...

Once pulverized coal flows have been measured, they can be balanced and optimized. Until then, tuning is simply guesswork. The right way to balance furnace fuel flows is to establish solid baseline ...

"We found that sipping through a straw defies all the previously known laws for the resistance or friction of flow through a pipe or tube," explains Leif Ristroph, an associate professor at New York ...

Transported through pipes, shear-thickening fluids, such as cornstarch in water or certain concretes, should theoretically solidify when subjected to high pressures. However, this is not observed in ...

Researchers have discovered a new way to help liquid flow in only one direction, but without using the flaps that engines and our circulatory system rely upon to prevent fluid backup. The team created ...

Ordinarily, if you want liquid to flow in only one direction through a pipe, that pipe needs to be equipped with a flap-type valve – which could fail. Now, however, scientists have created a new type ...

Goldbug: the common woodlouse has shed light on how organisms take up metals from the environment. (Courtesy: Andrawaag/CC BY-SA 4.0) When I was a child I remember being fascinated by woodlice, some ...

A team of researchers has uncovered new laws governing the flow of fluids through experiments on a technology thousands of years old: a drinking straw. This knowledge could be useful for improving ...