Popular Science Australia - August 2014 (gnv64)

Popular Science Australia - August 2014
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FEATURES
34 FUTURE OF THE CAR
Let’s not all rush into this whole auto-drive thing. Some car makers think human-controlled vehicles have a ways to go yet. Here’s how tech can help make driving fun.
38 25 REASONS TO LOVE DRONES
Unmanned aerial vehicles already create jobs, ferry supplies, and facilitate amazing selfies. There are lots of ways they will improve our lives—and five reasons we should fear them too.
44 INFANT POSSIBILITIES
Doctors can rapidly sequence babies’ genomes, a technique that could improve or even save lives—and determine the future of those yet to be born. MELINDA WENNER MOYER
52 A MISSION BACK IN TIME
The Rosetta spacecraft will soon become the first to probe a comet. The findings could change our understanding of the solar system. REBECCA BOYLE
54 DISPATCHES FROM THE FUTURE
In a Popular Science exclusive, 14 of today’s top science-fiction writers and artists envision how technology could change transportation, food, ageing, and war.

DEPARTMENTS
FEED
03 From the Editor
06 Peer Review
82 Lab Rats
NOW
08 A phone powered by the sun 10 10 things we love this month 14 Hi-fi music’s comeback
16 Will alien visitors come in peace?
18 A car that anticipates accidents
20 A grill that can power your campsite
22 Our report from the maddest tech show in the world - Computex
NEXT
26 Hammerhead sharks’ evolutionary trap
28 A thinking cap for faster learning
29 Preparing for a future without antibiotics
30 Mapping the risk of natural-disaster damage
32 The mysterious world of lightning
33 Cancer screenings may do more harm than good
MANUAL
70 A metal dress that enables electric performances
71 Enter your drone in aerial combat
72 Build an Arduino-powered Bluetooth car
74 A knife forged with a paint can
75 Reverse-engineering a Saturn V flight computer
78 The anatomy of a successful Kickstarter campaign
END MATTER
78 Ask Us Anything: Can humans smell fear?
81 From the Archives
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