If your car's more than 10 years old and you've never lubricated its locks, I bet this cheap and simple job will make your keys seem to magically work better. So here's a rundown of two common types ...

CP-LUBE (Poxylube CP-200) is Sandstrom's proprietary formula dry film lubricant. One spray powers out old gunk, dust and dirt that corrodes moving parts and leaves you with 'frozen' locks. Graphite's ...

"Broken nanodiamonds are forever," or so says a team of scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. By combining broken nanodiamonds with two-dimensional molybdenum ...

In a perfect world, every medical device component would be manufactured to exact dimensional specifications without variation. Sadly, because the world is far from perfect, engineers design ...

Dry bearings, as the name implies, work with little or no liquid lubrication. Compared with rolling-element bearings, dry bearings are simpler to design, less expensive to purchase and maintain, and ...

Graphite/metal alloy bearings handle harsh environments that lubricated bearings can’t. For example, a grease-filled ball bearing was used on an oven-door latch—but in tests, the bearing seized and ...