When you push or pull with a simple machine, you are applying a force and doing work. And, if you get more force out of a machine than you put into it, then that machine has a mechanical advantage.

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Elon Musk took to social media platform X to tease flying Cybertrucks on Tuesday. Musk retweeted an AI video, made by Grok for X user Unkonfined, that showed a Tesla Cybertruck, outfitted with wings ...

Nature can be an instructive guide for overcoming technological barriers. In 1969, the American engineer Otto Schmitt coined a term to describe the practice of science pulling from nature’s source ...

You might say a storm is brewing in the small town of Georgetown -- but it's not the kind that brings snow -- it's the kind that brings the heat. Cincinnati snowstorm tests plow crews, website crashes ...

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