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Articles on Speed
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Would you guess that the Earth is spinning at 1,000 mph around its axis and at the same time hurtling through space on its orbit around the Sun at 67,000 mph? Here’s why you don’t feel all that motion.
Many sports are almost unrecognisable to what they were a generation or more ago, and speed is one of the biggest factors in modern sports.
Gout Gout has captured Australia’s and the world’s attention. What will he be working on as the LA and Brisbane Olympics loom?
Would copying other states and dropping the default limit by just ten kilometres on country roads in WA and NT make a difference? And how might it be enforced?
The government plans to increase speed limits, despite research showing the benefits of going slow. With submissions on the proposals closing next week, several important factors should guide policy
Your sprinting skills have a lot to do with genetics, but your brain also plays a big role.
An aerospace engineer explains why it’s so hard to tell just how fast an airplane is really moving.
In between pitches, it might seem as if nothing is going on. But the game’s drama is still unfurling – you just need to know what to look for.
The fastest things ever made by humans are spacecraft, and the fastest spacecraft reached 330,000 mph – only 0.05% the speed of light. But there are ways to go faster.
Next year’s ‘spectrum auction’ will give telcos a chance to bid for access to high speed, millimetre-wave 5G. But big businesses are likely to be prioritised, not you.
A team of researchers developed an app to study whether the pandemic would cause our internal clocks to go haywire.
Prey species rely on camouflage and escape to avoid getting eaten. How can they make them work together?
High speeds, the threat of dangerous crashes, the excitement of the crowd – and the laws of physics on full display. A physicist explains the science of NASCAR.
Technology has made many aspects of daily life much easier. So why do we still feel so overwhelmed?
Ada, 7, wants to know why things close to the train windows zoom by really fast, while things further away seem to go by much slower.
West Australian Labor leader Mark McGowan said his state has the “worst rate of methamphetamine usage in the country”. We asked the experts to check the evidence.
… and how wind played its part.
Ice is a slang name for crystal methamphetamine – a stimulant drug that is swallowed, smoked or injected. It works by activating the reward pathways in the brain, producing feelings of alertness.
Here’s how to use maths to pull off the craziest motorbike stunt of all time.
Top contributors
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Professor of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto
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Adjunct Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne based), Curtin University
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Professor of Engineering Dynamics and Vibration, University of Cambridge
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Professor, Mental Health and Addiction, Rural Health Research Institute, Charles Sturt University
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Research Fellow, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Professor of Mathematical Biology and Public Engagement, University of Bath
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NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, Burnet Institute
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Adjunct Professor (Research) in Physics, Monash University
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Research Fellow, La Trobe University
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Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor of Human Geography, University of Canterbury
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University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
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Associate Professor of Exercise Science, University of Tennessee
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Professor of Vision Science, Newcastle University