2,500 mph: The speed achieved this year by the six-seat Virgin Galactic/Scale Composite SpaceShipTwo, the first commercial spacecraft…
2500 mph: The speed achieved this year by Virgin Galactic/Scale’s six-passenger composite SpaceShipTwo spacecraft, the first commercial spacecraft to surpass Mach 1.
99%: US fighter jets experienced bed bug infestation last year, up from 11% 10 years ago
2015: Honda, Hyundai and Toyota plan to offer consumers a small number of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
15 gigawatt-hours: The amount of electricity lost due to the Tesla Model S’s “vampire” power consumption problem since 2012 is almost the power of an average nuclear power plant in a day.
90%: part of a drug that has passed animal testing but failed human testing (scientists are developing alternatives that are equal or superior to animal methods)
4.6 feet: The height of the Samsung Roboray, an agile bipedal robot that can display its surroundings in real-time 3D for navigating its environment without GPS.
5 lbs: The weight of the MiniMAX, a portable x-ray machine that you can take to accident scenes, crime scenes, battlefields, airports, roadsides, and any other place where live x-ray vision can be useful.
1944: The year the US built its last battleship (check out the “How Battleships Work” infographic in the October 1943 issue of Popular Science).
70%: The missing share of American silent films since the advent of “talkies”, according to a recent study by the Library of Congress.
Post time: May-29-2023