Bentley used this month's Geneva International Motor Show to test reaction to its potential SUV before giving it the green light for production.

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Negre's Motor Development International has test Aircars zipping around the French Riviera near the company's offices outside of Nice.

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Herndon, VA - Volkswagen announced today that a 2013 Jetta Hybrid driven by Motor Trend Associate Road Test Editor Carlos Lago recorded a speed of 185.394 mph (298.363 kph) at the Bonneville Salt Flats, near Wendover, Nevada, during the Southern California Timing Association's (SCTA) annual Speed Week.

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The 150 or so athletes in USA Cycling's development pool must take an online test that tracks mental and motor functions, to establish a baseline score.

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The Glasgow Coma Scale is a standardized test that classifies a patient's motor, verbal and eye response on a graded scale.

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"Brooklands is a unique place which is celebrated as a test bed of invention and daring for both motor racing and aviation development, " said Stuart McLeod, head of Heritage Lottery South East.

BBC: Brooklands race track and hanger to be restored

Three strands of DNA were synthesized so that when they were put into a test tube, they immediately became a molecular motor--a pair of DNA tweezers, held together at one end by a third piece of DNA that could be made to open and shut by adding or subtracting a fourth DNA strand.

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He teamed up with Carnegie Mellon economist George Loewenstein and others to test 87 residents of a poor village in India on a variety of tasks involving memory, fine motor skills and creativity.

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