In a grandfather clock, a pendulum swings back and forth and this periodic motion is maintained using the energy stored in ...

Before Tesla devised beautifully simple rotary machinery, he explored other methods of generating alternating current. One of those was the mechanical oscillator, and [Integza] had a go at replicating ...

(Nanowerk News) Over the past decade, scientists have made tremendous progress in generating quantum phenomena in mechanical systems. What seemed impossible only fifteen years ago has now become a ...

Physicists in Germany and France have coupled a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) of ultracold atoms to the vibrations of a mechanical oscillator for the first time. Although the oscillator is relatively ...

Stanford University researchers have developed a key experimental device for future quantum physics-based technologies that borrows a page from current, everyday mechanical devices. Reliable, compact, ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Here, we study a cavity optomechanical system containing two non-degenerate, spatially separated and well-isolated mechanical ...

Researchers in Ania Bleszynski Jayich’s lab use a mechanical resonator to enable greater entanglement for potentially more powerful sensors. Most people think of diamonds as high-end adornments. Not ...

Zenith has re-engineered the mechanical watch movement by inventing a new single-piece oscillator that replaces the traditional hairspring/balance wheel assembly. It oscillates at a frequency ...

Scanning electron microscope image of an ultra-coherent superconducting electro-mechanical system. Credit: Amir Youssefi (EPFL) Over the past decade, scientists have made tremendous progress in ...