Every morning, the chief executive of Ford Motor F0.72%increase; up pointing triangle checks the same number: How big is the nationwide mechanic shortage at its dealerships? Lately it has hovered ...

This article was updated with new products and information in May 2026. If the mechanic in your life has grease under their nails and chassis codes in their head, you can forget about buying them a ...

After driving straight into deep floodwater, this van completely gave up — but the driver still wasn’t ready to accept reality. Standing ankle-deep in water with the hood open, he tried to diagnose an ...

On Saturday Night Live, host Will Ferrell and musical guest Paul McCartney played a couple of gibberish-speaking mechanics who end up taking some naive car owners for a ride. Ferrell begins by ...

The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian Journalist Ronson (So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed) delivers a by turns amusing and harrowing report on the desultory state of contemporary ...

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When I interviewed dozens of successful writers for a book, I discovered that many of them experience anxiety or fear related to writing. Some of those feelings may be a result of needing to satisfy ...

A worldwide shortage of aircraft mechanics is causing delays, cancellations and leading to a push to teach more people how to fix planes. At Cincinnati State Technical and Community College in Ohio, ...

In quantum mechanics, the idea that quantum information can’t be duplicated is ironclad – or at least, it was. A surprising approach to backing up qubits, the basic units of quantum computers, appears ...

As the auto mechanic industry races to fill jobs to meet the growing consumer demand for car repair, underrepresented groups, like women and Hispanic/Latino people, are beginning to take on and ...

KENT, Ohio—Just after 7 a.m. on a recent morning, Ted Hummel leapt up onto the front bumper of a 2019 Ford F-150 and reached under the hood to disconnect a pair of oxygen sensor connectors. It is the ...

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