If you ever suspect that you're getting a little too comfortable with your own level of knowledge of the world, there's a nice simple trick you can try to humble yourself, quickly and decisively. When ...

If you’re in fleet management or the construction industry, you undoubtedly have machines that run on diesel fuel. In addition to large trucks, more than 75% of all heavy construction equipment uses ...

Researchers have developed a promising yet surprisingly simple modification to diesel engines that could hold the key to reducing the complexity, maintenance, and size and weight of emission ...

The key ingredient to maximizing the peak performance of a diesel engine is increasing the amount of diesel being burned. On old mechanical-injection engines, the only way to do this was to modify the ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (March 28, 2016) -- The ability to study complex interactions inside a diesel engine gives Army scientists a new perspective that may help design more fuel efficient and ...

Diesel engines lack the spark of gas engines, both literally and figuratively. They don't need a spark plug since they ignite the fuel using only compression, but also lack the 'je ne sais quoi' that ...

The diesel engine traces its roots back to the late 1800s. Rudolph Diesel developed a compression ignition engine that ran on peanut oil, but it was the economics of the oil rush that created the ...