January 2012: The New Science of Stealth

Features

The Year in Science

• Garage Rocketeers Approach Orbit
• Games Go Outside the Box
• Now or Never for the Standard Model of Physics
• China Steps Up
• Congress Keeps Fiddling
• A Dozen More Stories to Expect in 2012

Borderworld

How the U.S. is reengineering homeland security by Roger D. Hodge

Invisible Warriors

The engineering breakthroughs that will make everything from planes to subs to soldiers…disappear By David Hambling

• The Successor to the B2 Stealth Bomber
• The Next Generation of Silent Submarines
• Metamaterials That Bring Invisibility Within Reach
• Future Tanks Will Be Cooler, and Thus Invisible to Thermal Detection
• Next-Generation Surveillance Robots Can Analyze Their Environment
• Camo Gets a Makeover

What’s New

• The Goods: January 2012’s Hottest Gadgets
• Artificially Intelligent Thermostats Learns to Adapt Automatically
• Tesla’s Model S Sets a New Standard for Battery-Powered Cars
• Tested: Wilton B.A.S.H. Sledgehammer
• Amazon’s Kindle Fire Is Blazingly Fast for a Mobile Device
• Gallery: Interactive Gym Equipment to Make You Sweat Smarter

Headlines

• PopSci BatSci: Biologists Use Old Weather Data to Track Bat Signals
• A Recumbent Tricycle So People Who Have Trouble Balancing Can Cycle
• How Robots Will Do the Heavy Lifting in the Sahara and Antarctica
• Drill, Don’t Kill: Lessons From Two Underground Lakes
• The Polar Dish: Tracking Satellites and Dodging Bears
• Scientific Ways to Make Whiskey Taste Older, Faster

How 2.0

• You Built What?! The World’s Largest Videogame Controller
• Gray Matter: When Tomato Meets Magnet
• How to Turn an Everyday MacBook Air Into a Professional-Grade Powerhouse
• How Can I Tell if My Phone’s Performance Measures Up?
• In Which I Designed a Part for My Truck, and Got It Built From Scratch

FYI

• FYI: Why Do Libraries Have That Smell?
• FYI: What Happens if I Put Rocket Fuel in My Gas Tank?
• FYI: What’s the Point of Nose Hair?
• FYI: Is It Possible to Control Our Dreams?

Megapixels

• Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Peruvian Burial Ground

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