Jim Mederer, the pioneer in rotary engine development in the 1970s, left us just before the end of 2016. He was seventy-four years old. He passed peacefully at his home with Racing Beat co-partner, ...

As Americans we live in a society obsessed with horsepower. The more the better, right? Is anyone really going to use a 1,000 horsepower street car? Probably not, but it sounds great saying it. The ...

A rotary engine usually has two spark plugs for a controlled, more-powerful burn. So it is that we find ourselves in an Anaheim ice cream shop, located in the shadow of Disney's Magic Kingdom, ...

In experiments on guinea pigs, scientists have used genetically modified human embryonic stem cells to make a biological pacemaker. The implanted tissue has kept the guinea pig hearts beating after ...