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Popular Science

Fall 2018
Magazine

This is the most exciting time to be alive in history. Discovery and innovation are reshaping the world around us, and Popular Science makes even the most complex ideas entertaining and accessible. We deliver the future now.

LOOK CLOSER

CONTRIBUTORS

you mean the world to microbes

shrinking act

where the wild things are

Keeping track over the decades

Tag, You’re It

subtle ripples in space go through a tighter squeeze

bananas: your cousin, maybe?

little critters behind the big cheese

ter-mighty towers

slim chance

LOOKING SHARP

MOBILE MACRO

MEASURED SUCCESS

FLAVOR SAVIOR

LET’S ANTS

COMPRESSED CAMP

SOUND INVESTMENT

MICRO MACHINES

MINI-GOLF MASTER STROKE

WHY DO WE THINK TINY THINGS ARE CUTE?

TINY

THE INCREDIBLE! SHRINKING! AIRPLANE! • JETS ARE GETTING BIGGER, YET, INCH BY INCH, OUR PERSONAL SPACE DWINDLES. HOW THE %*#+ DOES THAT WORK?

THANK YOU FOR FLYING • Welcome to air travel in 2018. Here’s what to expect in your cramped cabin.

Small Wonders • We’re biased toward big. Big ideas, big data, big science—the more mega an achievement, the more attention we shine on it. But this obsession tends to overshadow the smaller innovations that make our lives easier, safer, and longer. In many cases, wee widgets and materials have impacts disproportionate to their size.

DIRTY LITTLE SECRET • Meet the wee, multi-legged chefs behind the world’s most sought-after loaves

How to Start a Starter

Small WONDERS

SHAMU DREAMS OF EUROPA • The microscope that could look for life on Jupiter’s moon

WHAT’S INSIDE THE BOX

Small WONDERS

SAND • A TALE OF INNOVATION, WAR, AND GLORY

SQUAD MODS • Bagnold repurposed civilian trucks for his Long Range Desert Group

Small WONDERS

ZOOMING IN   ON THE HISTORY OF MAGNIFICATION • While the naked eye can pick out objects as thin as a hair, humankind has never been quite satisfied with that limited perspective. The smaller we can see, the smaller we want to see. So, over the past three millennia, we’ve worked to improve on our powers of sight with a little help from a lens. A magnifying lens, that is. And we’ve made some not-so-tiny discoveries along the way. Here are the biggest moments in our quest to see minutia.

Small WONDERS

The winding, heated, and absurdly technical oral history of the ginger emoji • In November 2014, a tech-industry consortium announced a new set of emoji that would diversify the physical appearance of the pictograms.

FOCUS ON THE DETAILS • A hyperclose look at our magnificent creepy-crawly neighbors. (Get your tape! Assembly required.)

reaching the past through a 7-inch chute • MARINA ELLIOTT, BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGIST AT UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND IN SOUTH AFRICA

what i learned from getting covered in whale snot • IAIN KERR, CEO AND WHALE BIOLOGIST AT OCEAN ALLIANCE

MICROMETEORITE MANIA • Norwegian musician Jon Larsen hunts tiny space rocks, also known as cosmic spherules.

what ancient storms blew into the arctic • ERICH OSTERBERG, CLIMATE SCIENTIST AT DARTMOUTH COLLEGE

the tiniest scientific tools i use • To manipulate wee objects, you need spectacularly tiny tools. We asked scientists to tell us about the cutest little instruments they use in their research. Here are a few of our favorites.

testing bacteria pills in pig bellies • MARK MIMEE, MICROBIOLOGIST AT MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

into the tar pit • LIBBY ELLWOOD, POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW AT LA BREA TAR PITS AND MUSEUM

dust-mite queen • RUBABA HAMID SHAFIQUE, RESEARCH ASSOCIATE AT INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL...


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Frequency: One time Pages: 134 Publisher: Camden Media Inc. Edition: Fall 2018

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This is the most exciting time to be alive in history. Discovery and innovation are reshaping the world around us, and Popular Science makes even the most complex ideas entertaining and accessible. We deliver the future now.

LOOK CLOSER

CONTRIBUTORS

you mean the world to microbes

shrinking act

where the wild things are

Keeping track over the decades

Tag, You’re It

subtle ripples in space go through a tighter squeeze

bananas: your cousin, maybe?

little critters behind the big cheese

ter-mighty towers

slim chance

LOOKING SHARP

MOBILE MACRO

MEASURED SUCCESS

FLAVOR SAVIOR

LET’S ANTS

COMPRESSED CAMP

SOUND INVESTMENT

MICRO MACHINES

MINI-GOLF MASTER STROKE

WHY DO WE THINK TINY THINGS ARE CUTE?

TINY

THE INCREDIBLE! SHRINKING! AIRPLANE! • JETS ARE GETTING BIGGER, YET, INCH BY INCH, OUR PERSONAL SPACE DWINDLES. HOW THE %*#+ DOES THAT WORK?

THANK YOU FOR FLYING • Welcome to air travel in 2018. Here’s what to expect in your cramped cabin.

Small Wonders • We’re biased toward big. Big ideas, big data, big science—the more mega an achievement, the more attention we shine on it. But this obsession tends to overshadow the smaller innovations that make our lives easier, safer, and longer. In many cases, wee widgets and materials have impacts disproportionate to their size.

DIRTY LITTLE SECRET • Meet the wee, multi-legged chefs behind the world’s most sought-after loaves

How to Start a Starter

Small WONDERS

SHAMU DREAMS OF EUROPA • The microscope that could look for life on Jupiter’s moon

WHAT’S INSIDE THE BOX

Small WONDERS

SAND • A TALE OF INNOVATION, WAR, AND GLORY

SQUAD MODS • Bagnold repurposed civilian trucks for his Long Range Desert Group

Small WONDERS

ZOOMING IN   ON THE HISTORY OF MAGNIFICATION • While the naked eye can pick out objects as thin as a hair, humankind has never been quite satisfied with that limited perspective. The smaller we can see, the smaller we want to see. So, over the past three millennia, we’ve worked to improve on our powers of sight with a little help from a lens. A magnifying lens, that is. And we’ve made some not-so-tiny discoveries along the way. Here are the biggest moments in our quest to see minutia.

Small WONDERS

The winding, heated, and absurdly technical oral history of the ginger emoji • In November 2014, a tech-industry consortium announced a new set of emoji that would diversify the physical appearance of the pictograms.

FOCUS ON THE DETAILS • A hyperclose look at our magnificent creepy-crawly neighbors. (Get your tape! Assembly required.)

reaching the past through a 7-inch chute • MARINA ELLIOTT, BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGIST AT UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND IN SOUTH AFRICA

what i learned from getting covered in whale snot • IAIN KERR, CEO AND WHALE BIOLOGIST AT OCEAN ALLIANCE

MICROMETEORITE MANIA • Norwegian musician Jon Larsen hunts tiny space rocks, also known as cosmic spherules.

what ancient storms blew into the arctic • ERICH OSTERBERG, CLIMATE SCIENTIST AT DARTMOUTH COLLEGE

the tiniest scientific tools i use • To manipulate wee objects, you need spectacularly tiny tools. We asked scientists to tell us about the cutest little instruments they use in their research. Here are a few of our favorites.

testing bacteria pills in pig bellies • MARK MIMEE, MICROBIOLOGIST AT MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

into the tar pit • LIBBY ELLWOOD, POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW AT LA BREA TAR PITS AND MUSEUM

dust-mite queen • RUBABA HAMID SHAFIQUE, RESEARCH ASSOCIATE AT INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL...


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