The world is literally kept from coming apart by screws and bolts, and yet we don’t often give a thought to these mechanisms. Part of that is probably because we’ve gotten so good at making ...

If you regularly repair old machinery or other things around your home, you’re bound to run into rusted screws. As long as you keep the right tools and supplies on hand, you can undo even the ...

David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...

Whether you’re working on a car, installing a doorknob, or driving a screw by hand into a piece of dense wood, the best ratcheting screwdriver can help. These handy tools can help you maintain ...

A screw is a type of hardware fastener that attributes its mechanical capabilities to the helical groove that extends around the circumference of the device's shank. These threads provide the friction ...

Screw pumps are rotary, positive displacement pumps that can have one or more screws to transfer high or low viscosity fluids along an axis. A classic example of screw pumps is the Archimedes screw ...

As a result, an almost indecent lushness hits us from both singers and orchestra in the orgiastic climaxes near the ends of each act (few in the audience will be aware of them as peak statements of ...

If one mark of a great masterpiece is its ability to withstand continual reinterpretations, then Benjamin Britten’s 1954 chamber opera The Turn of the Screw is up there with the greatest.