Combination locks may seem secure, but they're not foolproof. Despite their popularity, they're vulnerable to a technique called "lock manipulation," where skilled individuals can determine the ...

One way some materials form memories is called return-point memory, which operates much like a single dial combination lock, ...

Here’s a revival of the same method but now the instructions to retrieve the combination are ... up on the latch while the dial is rotated. Because of the way the lock is built the correct ...

Many materials store information about what has happened to them in a sort of material memory, like wrinkles on a once ...