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...lack of equality bother them, F1 fans embrace the technological warfare that defines their sport. For this year's championship, each of the leading teams has spent around $300 million on building and fine-tuning its cars. Behind the drivers is a network of boffins - engineers, mechanics, wind-tunnel experts - charged with analyzing the performance of every system of last year's model with the goal of making the new one faster. Inevitably, the high stakes have led to skulduggery. The sport's governing body, the Paris-based International Automobile Federation (FIA), last year fined McLaren a record $100 million...
...Science deserve much of the credit. Retired meteorologist Len van Burgel's task was to provide wind data from that long-ago November to help trace where debris from the Kormoran, found drifting days after the battle, could have come from. With no ocean wind reports available from that time, van Burgel dug through archives and extrapolated from land weather charts, then used computers and satellite imagery to model 1941 conditions. When the three approaches yielded similar results, he says, "we thought we were on to a good thing." Drift specialists could then identify where the German ship was likely...
...year Phoenix mission was the long-running Ulysses mission, which took the first full measure of the sun's polar regions. If it swirls, floats or emanates near the sun, Ulysses studied it. The spacecraft discovered that the sun's magnetic field determines the regions that produce the solar wind, and ruffled more than a few scientists' feathers when it showed that a hot corona produces the fastest solar winds--exactly the opposite of prevailing theories...
...even as the new ships are readied, some of the great historic ones are still in flight. Voyagers 1 and 2, launched in 1977 on a grand tour of the outer planets, are now on their way out of the solar system, with the last breaths of solar wind at their backs. Remarkably, NASA may be able to stay in touch with them for up to 30 more years--meaning the granddaddy ships could remain online long after some of the newest ones have winked out. As traffic jams go, that...
...double-leg amputee who has used Carroll's designs to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and the face of El Capitan, has led to the introduction of better mainstream limbs for people who don't use them to ascend ice walls. "We come up with a one-off thing, and we wind up with some phenomenal technology," says Carroll. For his clients, that means equally phenomenal mobility...