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The mantle of world's fastest production car looks to have been broken this month with Hennessey Performance announcing that its Venom GT hit 270.49 mph (435.31 km/h) at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Back in 1965, Lee Breedlove set the women's land speed record on Utah’s Salt Lake Flats with a speed of 308.51 mph (496.49 km/h). That record stood for 48 years until this month, when Jessi Combs took her 52,000 hp Supersonic Speed Challenger to a speed of 392.954 mph (632.39 km/h).
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French manufacturer Venturi Automobiles is aiming to set a new land speed record for electric vehicles with what's billed as the most powerful electric car ever made – the Venturi VBB-3.
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All of the two-wheeled machines that have held the motorcycle land speed record over the past few decades have one thing in common – they don't look like motorcycles. The latest speed machine to step up to the plate is no exception: the 1000-hp Castrol Rocket.
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To promote its new record label, Beck's Brewery inscribed a simple beer bottle with music, which can be played like a 19th century phonograph cylinder.
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Drayson Racing is taking its B12 69/EV to the races, chasing an electric land speed record.
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Eighty Danish Lego devotees got together on May 10 and 11 to help one Henrik Ludvigsen with his plan to build the world's longest plastic toy train track.
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Amanda Ghassaei recently programmed a laser cutter to carve playable records from wood and other materials.
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ScienceThe Sutter's Hill asteroid that exploded above California in April this year was the fastest on record according to new analysis.
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A cheese-powered dragster designed by researchers at USU has set a new record for a vehicle of its class.
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ScienceNorthwestern University researchers have broken a world record in the creation of two new synthetic materials which have the greatest amount of surface areas reported to date.
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One hundred and fifteen years ago, the first land speed record of 39.24 mph was set by an EV in a competition held by a French magazine. Within four months, the record was broken five times, all by EVs.
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