NASA has a meatball and a worm. The meatball—a sphere of stars, a red chevron, and a comet orbiting the agency’s acronym—came first, in 1959, and was attached to spacesuits and capsules. It was ...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Media are invited to hear a discussion on the design and cultural significance of the worm logotype with NASA and its creator Richard Danne at 11:30 a.m. EST ...

Worm gearboxes are the workhorses of modern manufacturing, increasing motor torque and acting as speed reducers in myriad industrial applications. Their Achilles' heel — inefficiency — is also their ...

The 2-foot wide gray rubber box sits unassumingly in an Allison Hall corridor. This particular box, owned by McCormick sophomore Sasha Letuchy, is filled not with class books or closet overflow, but ...

Although a significant amount of research on robot joint reducer was conducted, there are few systematic investigations on a novel joint reducer adopting inner worm-gear plane enveloping drum worm ...