A knocking sound from the engine often triggers worst-case assumptions, but piston slap is a far more common—and usually less dangerous—culprit. It occurs when a piston lightly contacts the cylinder ...

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A group of German scientists tested the effects of a more acidic ocean on sharks’ teeth and found that future generations of ...

Those small pair of tennis shoes sitting by the front door can change the entire temperature of my house. Not literally, of course. The thermostat remains exactly where it always is. But the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Thursday was the final day to select an Affordable Care Act health insurance plan across much of the country, ...

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The Clemson Tigers won their 11th straight ACC road game Saturday night with a 76-61 win at Notre Dame. Here's what Brad ...

There are grunts and growls, knocks and croaks — but the wild sounds detected by a team of British Columbia researchers don't belong to any of the province's famous forest creatures.

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – What if there were a way to put out fire without water, foam, or any other substance? What if it could be done with sound? While the concept may seem too good to be true ...

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When Yang Liwei boarded China’s first human spaceflight, he expected science, silence, and maybe a stunning view of Earth. What he didn’t expect—340 kilometers above the planet—was a strange, ...