The author struggled to reinstall their airplane's engine cowling due to a lack of mechanical skills. The author contacted the plane's previous owner, Dick, for help, highlighting the invaluable ...

Surgeons have used metal screws to reassemble broken bones for years, but there are drawbacks: if the metal corrodes, they’ve gotta come out. Biodegradable screws aren’t as strong, and can cause ...

People who sustain the most common type of hip fracture are at increased risk of complications. A special type of MRI has been developed that can show a detailed image following fracture repair, ...

Mauricio Umansky revealed that doctors put in 12 screws and a metal plate to fix his broken clavicle after his skiing accident in Aspen, Colo. “I had surgery on my clavicle. It was a clean break,” the ...

If you're hanging drywall, you might wonder if you can just use any type of screw you have lying around. After all, a screw is a screw, right? Not exactly. Drywall screws are designed specifically for ...

The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. In rats, bone screws made out of silk can fasten broken bones together just as well as metal and ...

A silk screw isn’t as stiff as a metal one, and that may be important for putting bones back together. Implanting the silk screws into rats’ hind limbs showed that the material could successfully pin ...

The last motherboard I tried to install got screwed up because I think I installed it in the case wrong. The motherboard nor the case came with screws to put in. <P>My question is this:<BR>What ...

Doctors in Lithuania recently cut open a patient's stomach so that they could safely remove the roughly two-and-a-half pounds of miscellaneous metal objects that he had swallowed over the course of a ...

A container of screws that fell off a vehicle and littered the roadway in Jackson County, Mississippi, caused flat tires along nearly 30 miles of interstate. Mississippi Highway Patrol responded ...