[Lindsay] has a wonderful writeup about a new toy in the shop, an ultrasonic transducer. The 28kHz, 70W bolt-clamped Langevin transducer by itself is not much use, you need a power supply ...

Michael Palin undertakes an epic journey of 23,000 miles, travelling from the North to the South Pole across 17 countries with a minimum of air travel, all on a tight deadline.

Pole vault is a track and field event in which athletes attempt to clear a horizontal bar by sprinting down a runway and using a pole to catapult themselves into the air. The athlete who clears the ...

Ultrasonic transducers send and receive waves for many types of sensing. They convert energy into high frequency sound waves in the ultrasonic range. These sound waves are then focused on a target and ...

Biological Transducers How are stimuli such as light and pressure converted into nerve impulses? The answer is sought by experiments with the Pacinian corpuscle, a specialized ending of the nerves ...

However, depending on where you set up shop, it may not be easy to tell where the fish and other obstacles are from the surface. Fish finding systems are critical for maritime fishers, and the ...

European scientists think they can now describe with confidence what's driving the drift of the North Magnetic Pole. It's shifted in recent years away from Canada towards Siberia. And this rapid ...

One superstition is the dangers of splitting the pole when you come across it while walking. If you grew up around ...

Olympic pole vault champion and world record holder Mondo Duplantis beat Karsten Warholm, the Olympic 400m hurdles silver medallist, and world record holder, over 100m in Zurich on Wednesday night.

Leclerc on pole with Piastri alongside Championship leader Verstappen qualified sixth McLaren's Norris starts 16th after Gasly disqualified Williams fined for leaving cooling fan on Albon's car ...