What is a gyroscope?

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Here’s how this peculiar instrument seemingly defies gravity

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How It Works Magazine

1 September 2023

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A guide to rudders

Delivery skipper Ben Lowings examines how different popular rudder designs affect handling, and explains how to maintain them

Classic Bike

Bearings know a thrust from a taper

They’re all over your bike, from the wheels and steering to the crank. Alan Seeley breezes through the what and why of your bike’s friction-beating essentials

Men's Fitness

In the balance

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Newton and the key to the universe

Modern science is inextricably linked to mathematics. I’m not just referring to numbers here – for example numerical measurements of things like time, speed and energy – although that’s an important p

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Where are you? what’s the time?

How the world’s clocks and geographic coordinates came to be set by a small borough of London

Cycling Plus

Safety first

It’s remarkable how fast the helmet flies. Fired from a drop rig, it travels at over 20kph and before I’ve had the chance to register what’s happening, it ricochets off an angled surface and disappear