In simple fluid mechanics, the shear stress is directly proportional to the shear rate. The constant that defines this proportionality is the measurable quantity known as the viscosity, a value that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A jammed or sticky zipper is one of the more familiar types of zipper problems. It always seems to happen when you're in a hurry, ...

Granular materials, ranging from fruit to rocks to powders, can change rapidly from a static jammed state to a free-flowing state. Insight from dynamical systems theory reveals that this tendency is ...

Q: My son came in from playing basketball with friends with a jammed finger – or at least I think it’s jammed. How can I tell, and what do I do? A: A “jammed” finger is an injury to a joint and the ...

Salvatore Torquato, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials at Princeton University, in collaboration with a team of ...

Deactivation of the safety lock-and-latch mechanism is a simple, but effective technique for opening jammed doors that all rescue personnel should be familiar with. This evolution can be considered an ...

Just when it was beginning to look like a ho-hum year for Australian film, along comes The Jammed, a low-budget, locally made shock of electricity that further restores one's faith in just how good ...

Armed with the same unflinching gaze Lukas Moodysson’s “Lilya 4-Ever” trained on the sordid world of sexual slavery, low-budget Aussie thriller “The Jammed” is an honorable addition to the small ...