But endurance alone isn’t enough for Patek Philippe. This calibre maintains a razor-sharp precision rate of ±1 second per 24 ...

Objects broken at the Dallas Museum of Art during the June 1, 2022 break-in are shown clockwise from left: A red-figure pyxis and lid from the last half of 5th century B.C., contemporary batah ...

The work of San Francisco based sculptor Dan Grayber makes this metaphor for the human condition literal–by creating spring-loaded mechanical objects that exist only to sustain themselves in mid ...

Watchmaking’s métiers d’art (decorative crafts) are as old as watchmaking itself. When mechanical watches appeared simultaneously in Italy, Germany, and France at the turn of the 16th century ...

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has taken an interest in research by the University of Missouri into crafting cloak-like structures that can steer mechanical wave energy around objects ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art's ornate table fountain, a 14th-century hydraulic automata, is the focus of a new exhibition on the popular medieval decorative objects.

By using a quantum device to control a mechanical object, researchers have linked the mind-bending laws of quantum physics to the tangible, everyday world. Until now, quantum physical behaviors ...

Einstein's 'spooky action' goes massive The elusive quantum mechanical phenomenon of entanglement has now been made a reality in objects almost macroscopic in size ...