Last month's "How It Works" story gave you the basics of the four-stroke cycle, describing the motion of the intake and exhaust valves in relation to the piston moving up and down in the cylinder.

It’s funny how timing works. You know, did this thing happen at this moment when you could have been somewhere else? You know, like the time you accidentally stumbled onto the last item of something ...

For the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Omega sent one watchmaker from Switzerland with a suitcase filled with 30 chronographs—handheld stopwatches that were accurate to one-tenth of a second—to ...

When it comes to factor investing, timing matters. A new academic paper published late in March shows that market timing works with factors. Researchers found that timed portfolios outperformed those ...