The mind-bending world of birotary engines - a hybrid of piston and rotary technology that could revolutionize aviation. But ...

You'd think measuring an engine's displacement would be simple, but there's a long history of trying to figure out how to ...

Everyone generally knows about piston and rotary engines, with many a flamewar having been waged over the pros and cons of each design. The “correct” answer is thus to combine both into a single ...

There’s a new spin on the rotary engine. Liquid Piston, a Connecticut-based engineering firm, has turned the classic Wankel engine design inside out to create a more efficient, and cleaner-burning ...

Liquid Piston has taken its revolutionary engine out for a spin. The Connecticut-based startup has been developing a tiny new type of rotary engine for several years that’s so innovative it received a ...

Meet the Birotary, a crazy new and complicated engine that has three cylinders arranged like a star, a rotating block, a ...

In theory, Wankel-style rotary internal combustion engines have many advantages: they ditch the cumbersome crankcase and piston design, replacing it with a simple, single-chamber design and a thick, ...

Mazda stunned the world with the RX-Vision concept last year and now we have the first details on its new rotary engine. Currently under development, Mazda’s next-generation rotary engine has been the ...

A government-backed research institute is funding work to develop a hybrid-electric powertrain based on a new version of the Wankel piston engine that is now being used to power Mazda's new RX-8 car.

Every few weeks I receive word at the office that some tinkering genius has revolutionized the internal-combustion engine. These notices arrive on pages still smelling of Damascus lightning, and ...

The new and improved always prevails over the old and stale, doesn’t it? Surely the ancient contraption called an internal combustion reciprocating piston engine – a design that is approaching its 150 ...