Increased stiffness of the colon, spurred by chronic inflammation, may encourage the development and progression of early-onset colorectal cancer (CRC), a study co-led by UT Southwestern Medical ...

Everyone knows that walking on soft sand is more difficult than walking on a hard sidewalk. By the same token, MIT scientists are now suggesting that if road surfaces were to be made stiffer, large ...

Hard journey: using stiffer materials to build roads such as this Texas freeway could reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (Courtesy: Danazar/CC BY-SA 3.0) The efficiency of the US transportation sector ...

When you walk on a sandy beach, it takes more energy than striding down a sidewalk—because the weight of your body pushes into the sand. Turns out, the same thing is true for vehicles driving on roads ...

For the first time, researchers have hard evidence that human-made hexagonal diamonds are stiffer than cubic diamonds found in nature and often used in jewelry. Hexagonal diamonds have been found at ...

Your car's suspension is subjective. It's also a whole lot of sorcery. Combine those two things and you've got something that nobody can agree upon and that hardly anybody understands. At the heart of ...

Hong Kong authorities have proposed adopting stiffer penalties for illegal ride-hailing services and relying on licensing to regulate platforms such as Uber as a step towards easing a long-running ...

Got a gear question? Email [email protected] or tweet Jon Levey @levey_jon. The other day I broke a string and was forced to use one of my playing partner’s racquets. It has a much higher ...