Abstract: The differential analyzer was a prewar form of mechanical computer designed to solve non-linear differential equations. A team at Cambridge University has now built an online digital ...

This is the official explanation for the collapse of a high-rise apartment building in a nearly-completed residential complex in Shanghai. The building toppled over almost completely intact, leaving ...

Long before electricity was a common household utility, humanity had been building machines to do many tasks that we’d now just strap a motor or set of batteries onto and think nothing of it.