Engineers have a lot to think about when designing new engines, and one of the biggest considerations is the shape of the ...

The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long; we all know that. However, some of the newest engine designs are proving to be more like firecrackers than candles, judging from the number of ...

Technical manoeuvring to push regulatory boundaries for the slightest performance edge without actually breaking any rules is a familiar pattern in all forms of motorsport. Engineers treat the rule ...

In this latest episode of The Detroit News' Pistons podcast, "The Engine Room," beat reporter Coty Davis and Detroit News contributor Tarohn Finley talk about J.B. Bickerstaff's rotation strategy and ...

The internal combustion engine, for all its mechanical sophistication, still runs on a 19th-century mechanical idea: pistons rising and falling, a crankshaft spinning, a steam-age architecture ...