Popular_Science_Australia_November_2016
20 POPULAR SCIENCE Dengue—a virus most commonly transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito—infects some 400 million people yearly ...
POPSCI.COM.AU 21 HEALTH by ALYSSA FAVREAU + CLAIRE MALDARELLI Photograph by SAM KAPLAN ...
ICONS BY MICHAEL BRANDON MYERS; PHOTO CREDITS SEE PAGE 87 E H A C D B F C ...
POPSCI.COM.AU 23 People with coeliac disease normally have to take a cook’s word on whether their meal is truly gluten-free. Nim ...
24 POPULAR SCIENCE Popular Science: How does immunotherapy differ from chemo and radiation? Carl June: A reprogrammed immune sys ...
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A U T O For more than a century, the internal combustion engine has relied on the camshaft. This spinning rod with variable lobe ...
root of engine inefficiency. In April, Swedish supercar-maker Koenigsegg debuted the world’s first camless engine—the FreeValve— ...
Affordable electric vehicles have struggled to break the 350-km- range barrier. General Motors (no, not Tesla) is getting there ...
Mustangs once shared parts with burly pickup trucks. Now, the classic pony wears ultralight carbon-fiber wheels. The 19-inch rim ...
THESLACKCHANNEL AT THE UNIVERSITYOF PENNSYLVANIA’S human-machine interaction lab, where I work, is typically a steady drip oflec ...
software update. Carmakers should create short training programs—like the Saturday courses some states require for a boater’s li ...
32 POPULAR SCIENCE When it comes to virtual reality, video gets all the glory. But hearing in VR—as bullets whiz overhead and fl ...
POPSCI.COM.AU 33 ENTER - TAINMENT ...
34 POPULAR SCIENCE The strict requirements of high-def VR gaming require beefy PCs to use. The PlayStation VR makes the experien ...
POPSCI.COM.AU 35 PHOTO CREDITS SEE PAGE 87 A G I F D B H C E ...
36 POPULAR SCIENCE By KELSEY D. ATHERTON + SOPHIE BUSHWICK On July 4—870 million km from the nearest Independence Day barbecue—t ...
POPSCI.COM.AU 37 AERO - SPACE radiation by a titanium vault, Juno’s scientific instruments— including a radiometer to study atmo ...
38 POPULAR SCIENCE The ability to reuse a rocket’s first stage—the part that traditionally falls into the ocean— could cut the c ...
All-electric planes lack the power of gas-guzzling craft, which means they can carry only limited passenger weight. So in design ...
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