Where Science Meets Fiction
Innovations reducing vehicle emissions.
A fully loaded delivery truck rolling down a city boulevard at 60 km/h is doing something that barely registers as remarkable. But roughly 20% of the fuel energy that truck burns – the portion that nobody in the cargo chain is paying attention to – goes into deforming rubber and asphalt. The tyre compresses on…
Right now, something is moving through this page. Through the screen, through the table it rests on, through the floor beneath that, and through the ground below the building. Dark matter, the invisible gravitationally active mass that holds galaxies together, streams through ordinary matter at roughly 220 kilometers per second relative to the galactic center,…