Even from the very earliest days of the automobile age, cars and trucks have been hybrids of mechanical and electrical design. For every piston sliding up and down in a cylinder, there’s a spark plug ...

Determine whether you will be using twist-on wire nuts, push-ins, lever nuts or screw terminals. Twist-on wire nuts are a traditional, inexpensive choice that work for most splicing applications.

A remarkable proof-of-concept project has successfully manufactured nanoscale diodes and transistors using a fast, cheap new production technique in which liquid metal is directed to self-assemble ...