Some people can drop a task midstream, respond to a curveball, and then slide back into deep focus with barely a hitch. Others feel like a manual transmission stuck between gears. New research on how ...

Scientists have discovered that the protein machines that shape our DNA can switch direction. Until now, researchers believed that these so-called SMC motors that make loops into DNA could move in one ...

New USC research offers an unseen insight into how the brain shifts gears. The researchers have discovered that our innate ability to make quick changes in motor function is the result of a unique ...

How do gears work? Why is it that the first gear gives you the most torque and hence the most acceleration? Since the first gear gives me the most acceleration why do I need to switch gears? Wouldn't ...