Popular Science USA - January/February 2018 (gnv64)

Popular Science USA - January/February 2018
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CHARTED
(6) The U.S. grid is under attack
(8) What's a horsepower, anyway?
(9) How valuables gain financial influence
(10) The fuel ittakes to power the average American abode
(12) Nature's baddest animals get in the ring with each other
(14) The safer, salt ier nuciear alt ernat ive
(15) Somehow, more gadget s use less electricity
(16) Lavey-dovey firefly chemistry
PROFILE
(18) Robert Afzal is on a mission to create the laser weapon (pew! pew.') of your childhood fant asies. As head of Lockheed Martin's advanced laser systems program, he's poised to do just t hat -wit h a little inspiration from fiber optics.
GOODS
(20) world's spiciest tortilla chip
(22) Backup batteries with exponentially more charges
(23) Hand toolsto crush your DIY goals
(24) Souped-uptwo wheelers for absolutely everyone
(26) Watches that never need charging
(28) Powerlifting essentials to get buff-the safe way
(30) The most powerful desktop you con buy, period
FEATURES
34 Can we outlaw fossil fuels? Hawaii is trying, and they wont to do it by 2045.
42 How gas-guzzling, exhaust-fuming F1 racing will cope wrt:h an increasingly electric world.
49 Our life-giving sun could one day shut down our pianet-wide grid.
54 The most pivot al Olympic moment is also one of the shor.est: inside the bobsled start.
56 The U.S. is abandoning nuclear power. Is the shift'oresight or folly?
62 The yearsiong mission to upgrade the tubes that connect the Big Apple to the Net
TALES FROM THE FIELD:
73 The remote islands where stone is money
74 How getting swole improved my life
74 We made a hyperloop in high school
75 Yes,I leton eel shock me
76 My charisma research makes it hardto trust
76 Gorillapowerdynamics change in a flash
77 Watching a solar gnd inthe eclipse
HEAD TRIP:
78 Why focusing makes you blind
INVENTIONS:
90 Synthetic blood cells, supercharged point, o weeklong phone battery