August 2013: The Bio Revolution

Letter From The Editor

Synthesis

Features

The Body Shop

3-D printers have transformed manufacturing. Now they’re poised to revolutionize medicine. How the machines we’ve built are building bits and pieces of us. By Steven Leckart

• Plus: How It Works: A 3-D Printer For Liver Tissue
• And:5 Body Parts Scientists Can 3-D Print

End Of The Interface

Can two grade-school friends remake the way we interact with computers? By Tom Foster

• Plus: 5 Ways Gestural Control Could Change Everything

The Best Nerd Road Trips

Twenty-five curious, mysterious, or otherwise beguiling destinations to satisfy your inner science-history geek By Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley

Single-Stream Recycling

Moving paper away from plastic so you don’t have to. By Katie Peek

Could This Liquid Replace Food?

Soylent, a milky beverage filled with nutrients, lets drinkers go without real food. Meet the inventor behind the stuff. By Caleb Hannan

What’s New

• The Greenest Headphones
• The Goods
• Incredible Shrinking Engines
• The Most Efficient Chip
• Shelled Out
• Pocket Roadie
• Anarchy of Things

Headlines

• Apocalypse Averted?
• Solar Scrubber
• Squishable Armor
• A New Movement
• Helium Supply
• Metabolic Rates
• Shrewbot
• Patenting Pathogens

How 2.0

• Pirate-Proof Yacht
• Spin Master
• Symphonic Junk
• Instant Gratification
• BeetBox

FYI

• Can Staying Positive Extend Your Life?
• What Would Happen If We Killed All The Mosquitoes?

Megapixels

• Underground Cosmology