Quick Take Dogs snap their tongues upward, generating forces from 1 to 4 Gs and peaking at 8 Gs to lift a water column. The ...

The kind of lapping plate Insaco uses plays a vital role in the lapping process. It significantly affects the output of this abrasive machining technique. A plate should not be too hard as it damages ...

Cats' gravity-defying grace and exquisite balance extends even to the way they lap milk, say researchers. They analyzed the way cats lap and found that felines of all sizes take advantage of a perfect ...

Even if you don't own a cat you've probably seen one lap up a bowl of milk. Exactly how our feline friends go about doing it has been a scientific mystery, until now: The journal Science has published ...

Lapping a CPU is a process by which you sand the top of a CPU's case until it is as close to perfectly smooth as possible. The idea is that if you can eliminate microscopic air gaps between the ...

elson, a computer programmer for a financial institution in New Orleans, sat across the desk from his boss. Nelson flinched when the boss told him the news that he, an 11-year company veteran, was in ...

Perfect physics We always knew about the cat's whiskers, but US engineers have discovered it is really the cat's tongue we should be raving about. Cats have a unique lapping technique - a cat's tongue ...

Researchers from the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia have developed a new passive technology to keep solar panels cool. They claim their new tech can ...

During lapping, a spinning abrasive surface is used to thin wafers from the backside. As the process progresses, precise feedback is required to monitor the amount of material removed and determine ...

It seemed like a good idea to build a semiconductor lapping machine from an old hard drive. But there’s just something a little off about [electronupdate]’s build, and we think the Hackaday community ...