A search is underway for the person who stole an ambulance from St. Luke’s Hospital in Meridian, Idaho, and used the vehicle to crash into a nearby office building that houses U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel. According to police, the suspect had poured gasoline or another unknown accelerant throughout the stolen vehicle before fleeing the scene on foot. The suspect fled the scene before igniting the accelerant that could have made the damage much worse, according to authorit...

Imagine trying to photograph wind. That’s similar to what NASA engineers dealt with during a recent effort to study how air moves around planes, rockets, and other kinds of aerospace vehicles. Air is invisible, but our understanding of how it flows is crucial for building better, safer aircraft. For 80 years, researchers used a technique called “focused schlieren imaging.” Think of it as a special camera system that can “see” air movement by detecting tiny changes in its density. It’...

Hyundai Motor Europe supports the European Union’s plan to introduce a new M1E vehicle category, which should enable the development of more affordable small electric cars. However, the company says that specific business decisions require precise details about which regulations will actually be eased. The idea of ​​the M1E class is to simplify some of the technical and regulatory requirements for city cars to reduce production costs. Less mandatory equipment and technology should enable l...