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by Matthew Pittman, University of Tennessee
What makes...
In the 1950s, transistor technology allowed smaller radios to be installed in the dashboard. H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock via Getty Images
by Matthew Jordan, Penn State
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by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Hunter College
Since the 1940s,...
A car fails to yield as a family attempts to cross a road in Long Beach, Calif.
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by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
In 1980, when James Clavell’s blockbuster historical novel “Shōgun” was turned into a TV miniseries, some...
Condensation and cold combine to create that layer of ice on car windshields in winter.
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An engineer who studies airborne particles...