Plastic bearings are used in wet and corrosive environments, clean environments, areas that are difficult to lubricate, and applications that require non-magnetic bearings. They are made from a ...

In rotary bearings, there are two basic types of bearing cage designs: crown and ribbon. Crown retainers feature a single-piece, open-ball pocket design. Ribbon retainers have a two-piece, open-ball ...

Simple plastic and metal construction, as well as easily sliding pins, make for an extremely accurate and very easy-to-use gauge. In our testing, we found that the Jorest supergauge was able to ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

The periodic table of chemical elements, often called the periodic table, organizes all discovered chemical elements in rows (called periods) and columns (called groups) according to increasing atomic ...

Americans love small-gauge guns. They’re light, trim, and easy to carry. But there are some pretty big tradeoffs to going small. First and most important is that small-bore shotguns simply can ...

An curved arrow pointing right. What do we get wrong when we talk about ocean plastic? A lot, it turns out. Business Insider producer Elizabeth McCauley dives into the scientific literature and ...

The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge showed price pressures cooled last month, rising 2.2% in August from a year earlier. The personal-consumption expenditures price index ...