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The 10 Best Race Tracks In The World
For a petrolhead, there’s nothing on earth quite like a race track. They’re a place of worship to speed, with pretty much free reign to explore a car – and yourself – to an absolute limit.Not all race tracks are created equally though. There are a few extra-special stretches of tarmac across the world that
Studying ship tracks to inform climate intervention decision-makers
Observable and unobservable behaviors of aerosol emissions from satellite sensors. Credit: Environmental Data Science (2022). DOI: 10.1017/eds.2022.21 Sandia scientists have developed computer tools to study inadvertent marine cloud brightening. To understand how these ship tracks move and dissipate, the scientists created a mathematical model of ship tracks and how long they last, which they shared
A New Map Tracks the World’s Largest Glaciers
A visualization compares the forms of Earth’s largest flows of ice Credit: Amanda MontañezScientists recently created the first systematic ranking of Earth’s largest glaciers. They started by comparing inconsistent databases to select the forms that best fit the definition of a glacier—a long-lasting, flowing mass of ice. Determining the borders of individual glaciers, however, is
GM Fast Tracks Its Heavy-Duty Electric Pickup Plans
News @andrew_andrew__ Jan 10, 2022, 12:38 pm EST | 1 min read No, this isn’t a photo of an EV. GMGeneral Motors and other carmakers have already debuted their first electric pickup trucks, but they’re still unable to produce a heavy-duty electric pickup due to technological constraints. In fact, GM recently stated that it wouldn’t…