Popular Science – November 2010 (gnv64) torrent

Popular Science – November 2010
English | True PDF | 118 Pages | 19.7 MB

50 MARS IN 39 DAYS
NASA wants to send humans to Mars, but its preferred rocket
technology is too slow. Former astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz
has a plan—and an engine—to make the trip a reality.
By Sam Howe Verhovek
69 BRILLIANT 10
Meet the brightestyoung researchersin America, 10 emerging scientists
who are creating bullets out of sound waves,making robots that school
with fi sh, and predicting the next flu pandemic.
66 PERFECT TIMING
Strontium atomic clocks are three times as accurate as
the current standard. Here’s how they tick.
By Erika Villani
56 DINNER DETECTIVES
Scientists deploy DNA forensics to protect vanishing species.
By Laura Allen
HEADLINES
35 SPACE
Are American astronauts getting adequately trained in Russia?
36 ARCHAEOLOGY
Robots map the entire Titanic wreck in 3-D.
38 INVENTION OF THE MONTH
A better MRI, built in a basement.
48 SPACE TECH
Astrobots battle for supremacy.
WHAT’S NEW
19 GADGETS
A cellphone that performs electrocardiograms.
20 THE GOODS
The farthest-zooming camera, and more.
30 GADGETS
Cameras that let you fi lm in a new dimension.
32 AUTOMOTIVE
Reinventing the internal combustion engine.
FYI
96 Can we repurpose
retired space shuttles
as space stations?
HOW 2.0
85 YOU BUILT WHAT?!
A giant PC-controlled chess set built from Legos.
88 GRAY MATTER
How stuntmen light themselves on fi re.
90 USE IT BETTER
Control your media with free software.
92 ASK A GEEK
Can I bring everything on my computer with me anywhere on a thumb drive?
OTHER STUFF
10 FROM THE EDITOR
12 THE INBOX
112 THE FUTURE THEN