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If the aviation industry was a country, it would rank among the world’s top ten emitters of carbon dioxide (CO₂).
Aviation emissions have risen by...
Electric car charging stations may be portals for power grid cyberattacks
Electric cars are an essential component of a lower-carbon future.
However, a new report raises the specter that plug-in electric vehicles — and the charging...
NASCAR may be the fastest way to learn about physics
There’s just something thrilling about traveling at high speeds.
Throughout history, people have always pushed themselves to go faster, whether on foot, on horseback, on...
Hackers could use few connected cars to gridlock whole cities
Hackers could gridlock whole cities by stalling out a limited percentage of self-driving and other connected vehicles.
In the year 2026, at rush hour, your...
When you spot one driving hazard, you may be missing another
When people notice one traffic hazard, they are less likely to see a simultaneous second hazard, according to new research from North Carolina State...
How the Volkswagen Beetle sparked America’s art car movement
With a mariachi band playing along, the last Volkswagen Beetle rolled off the assembly line of a Mexican factory on July 10.
Originally created in...
Commercial supersonic aircraft could return to the skies
Flying faster than the speed of sound still sounds futuristic for regular people, more than 15 years after the last commercial supersonic flights ended....
Ride-hailing services may be driving up traffic deaths
A Chicago Booth study finds motor vehicle fatalities and fatal accidents increased about 3 percent with arrival of ride-hailing services.
While the era of app-based...
New cars are safer, but women most likely to suffer injury, says study
Cars built in the last decade have been shown to be safer than older models, including in the most common types of crashes -...
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In a recent study, researchers found that a widely used type of painkiller may increase risks of heart failure and kidney disease.
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