The Week In Numbers: The Top Speed Of A Polar Bear, Quark Mystery Solved, And More
Friday, February 28, 2014 - 17:30
in Astronomy & Space
A polar bear checks out a Tundra Buggy as the Trekker collects Street View imagery of it. Eric Gillespie/Google 25 miles per hour: the sprinting speed of a polar bear (read about Google's quest to bring polar bears to Street View here) 500 trillion: the number of particle collisions it took to discover the last as-yet-unproven way of making top quarks Fermilab Fermilab, Reidar Hahn 2016: the year the Hybrid Air powertrain, which propels a car using compressed air, will be available in Europe The car that runs on air Illustration by Graham Murdoch $399: the price of the gorgeous Harman Kardon Aura Bluetooth speaker The Harmon...