Should we prepare for a violent SPX breakout? After a red-hot start to July, the S&P 500 Index (SPX) has been trading in an extremely tight range lately. Over the last three weeks, the difference ...

Engineers together with computer scientists have developed a method that predicts the pattern of coils and tangles that a cable may form when deployed onto a rigid surface. The research combined ...

The team led by Professor Anderson Ho Cheung Shum of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has accomplished a key breakthrough in fluid dynamics, by developing a ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 111, No. 41 (October 14, 2014), pp. 14663-14668 (6 pages) We investigate the deployment of a thin elastic rod onto ...

(Nanowerk News) When one sends an email from Boston to Beijing, it travels through submarine optical cables that someone had to install at some point. The positioning of these cables can generate ...

If you carefully lower a rope onto the floor it will probably form a neat coil. While most people wouldn’t give this a second thought, an international team of physicists has done a series of ...