2019-02-01_Popular_Science

64 SPRING 2019 • POPSCI.COM GETTING THERE ...

BY SARAH SCOLES PHOTOGRAPHS BY CODY PICKENS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IS GREAT—IF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO IT. NOW CITIES ARE STARTING TO ...

ST. STEPHEN’S COMMUNITY HOUSE sits among single-family homes, recycling plants, wrecking yards, shipping centers, and parks, all ...

Some worry that if the improvements actually happen, it will just catalyze gentrification, destabilizing the very people whose l ...

wheelchair to look around the room. He’s here somewhere, she says, smiling. But Williams and her son almost didn’t make it tonig ...

GETTING THERE with demo technology and electric cars that people can take out and test-drive. Behind this display space, the Sma ...

70 SPRING 2019 • POPSCI.COM 1. EASING THE SQUEEZE The most coveted inches on any plane are the ones we sit on—the economics of a ...

alleviate the trans- continental scourges of dry eyes and itchy nasal passages. 4. TAKE OFF AND TUNE OUT Perhaps the easiest way ...

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FRFROM THE NEXT ROOM, THROUGH A thick granite wall, comt es a chug-a-chug- a-chug-a, like an old steamm train closing in. Roundi ...

coffee can goes boom! and just flies away,” Overmyer says, recalling the first time she watched the panels split from the craft ...

they weren’t supposed to—mostly too soon. In 1831, these techniques began to change— become more refined, predictable, safe. In ...

friends: SpaceX founder Elon Musk, whose ethos centers on reusability, is not a fan of the bang. EBAD had very little kit on the ...

BOLT TO MARS 78 CO UR TE SY N AS A SPRING 2019 • POPSCI.COM 1 Lau Once Orion clears the atmosphere, it drops the shields, called ...

⁄ keep changing. Halfway through development—after more than a dozen bolt iterations and a couple of vehicle tests— NASA determi ...

THE PAST a history of hitting the ROAD Humans have been clearing trees and burning brush to transport food and attack our enemie ...

even more asphalt Around the turn of the 20th century, the U.S. started to roll out roads as we know them, replacing soil pa ...

A truly well-designed road won’t just with- stand rain, sun, and tire abuse—it’ll also make driving easier and cleaner for the c ...

Especially cold or dry locales can boast boulevards made of uncon- ventional stuff. In arid countries such as Chile, govern- men ...