Part of that is probably because we’ve gotten so good at making them that they’re seen as cheap commodities, but the physics and engineering behind the screw thread is interesting stuff.

The screw itself wasn’t too hard to cut, although there were some interesting practical details in the thread profile that we’d never heard of before. The mating nut was another. Rather than ...

The humble nail has been around since before biblical times ... have always been valuable and important. The thread that defines a screw as a screw, meanwhile, is slightly younger, dating back ...