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When a fan is driven by a motor, air enters the back and accelerates out the front.
THE SCIENCE BEHIND HOW AN AIRCRAFT GLIDESBY PETER GARRISON/FLYING MAGSEPTEMBER 3, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCE
Though air pollution vastly improved in recent decades—thanks largely to technology and policy aimed at motor vehicles—it remains a problem in many large cities.
CITY PAVEMENT IS A BIG SOURCE OF AIR POLLUTIONULA CHROBAKSEPTEMBER 3, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCE
For another, they’re smart cookies, meaning they can be trained to walk on a treadmill while the implant records from their motor cortex to predict the movement of each joint.
NEURALINK’S WILDLY ANTICIPATED NEW BRAIN IMPLANT: THE HYPE VS. THE SCIENCESHELLY FANSEPTEMBER 1, 2020SINGULARITY HUB 
Most vehicles today house internal-combustion engines, but cars with electric motors are gaining ground.
50 YEARS AGO, SCIENTISTS WERE TRYING TO DEVELOP A LOW-EMISSION CARERIN GARCIA DE JESUSSEPTEMBER 1, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
Whatever the class, federal law restricts “low speed electric bicycle” motors with 750 watts of power.
DO YOU WANT TO BUY AN E-CARGO BIKE? READ THIS FIRST.JOE LINDSEYAUGUST 30, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINE
The motor comes with GPS sensors and auto steering functions that let you follow a course, hold a position, and keep your bow on a heading, even in heavy winds and strong currents.
THIS MOTORIZED KAYAK CAN DRIVE ITSELFBY NATE MATTHEWS/OUTDOOR LIFEAUGUST 28, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCE
It also fishes well in bigger water, where the GPS motor keeps wind and current from pushing you off target.
THIS MOTORIZED KAYAK CAN DRIVE ITSELFBY NATE MATTHEWS/OUTDOOR LIFEAUGUST 28, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCE
To investigate the effects of a centrifuge on sensorimotor control, Rachael Seidler, a motor control researcher at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and colleagues kept 24 volunteers in bed for 60 days to mimic life in microgravity.
WHAT WILL ASTRONAUTS NEED TO SURVIVE THE DANGEROUS JOURNEY TO MARS?MARIA TEMMINGJULY 15, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
To think,” said the younger Englishwoman to her sister, “of this wee mite travelling about in an open motor!
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKE
Under these conditions, the large motor B collapses and the pull-down P (which is connected with the organ pallet) rises.
THE RECENT REVOLUTION IN ORGAN BUILDINGGEORGE LAING MILLER
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WORDS RELATED TO MOTOR

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  • domineered
  • enslaved
  • gripped
  • harassed
  • harried
  • haunted
  • hectored
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  • overrode
  • persecuted
  • rated
  • reproached
  • reviled
  • scolded
  • tormented
  • tortured
  • tyrannized
  • upbraided
  • was arbitrary
  • was autocratic
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