Why The Manual Gearbox Is Disappearing And What’s Driving Its Decline
Against all odds, BMW is holding dearly to the manual gearbox. BMW M is working on a solution to pair its increasingly powerful engines with a manual. The manual gearbox…
The disappearing planet next door has astronomers intrigued
Found using the MIRI instrument on NASA’s Webb telescope, which was managed by JPL through launch, the possible planet would be easier to study than more far-flung worlds. Astronomers using…
Barriers against Antarctic ice melt disappearing at the double
Undersea anchors of ice that help prevent Antarctica’s land ice from slipping into the ocean are shrinking at more than twice the rate compared with 50 years ago, research shows.…
Neptune’s disappearing clouds linked to the solar cycle
Astronomers have uncovered a link between Neptune’s shifting cloud abundance and the 11-year solar cycle, in which the waxing and waning of the Sun’s entangled magnetic fields drives solar activity.…