Modern vehicles rely on a host of fluids to send us down the road. Some, like engine oil and coolant, are well-known, while others, like differential fluid, are less-familiar to average motorists.

A dual-clutch transmission, or DCT, functions like two manual transmissions in one package, with two independent shafts and clutches for odd and even gears. However, DCTs function similarly to an ...

Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic simple ...