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THE LAST DROPS ar By Paul Roberts BY THE NUMBERS 56 HOW POWER HAPPENS CONCEPTS & PROTOTYPES NEXT-GEN NUKES CONCEPTS & PROTOTYPES FUSION ENERGY inthe world's vide an abundance of energy By Brooke Boret CONCEPTS & PROTOTYPES ‘SPACE-BASED SOLAR POWER By Hillary Rosner PobeRncoh JULY 2011 POPULAR SCIENCE 090 A cell twists apart; spiders head for higher ground, 5 GADGETS Video-recording sungla 16 THE GOODS ‘The first all-wheel-drive Ferrar (24 WHAT'S NEXT A.40,006 ymera with perfect focus ever ‘SECURITY How a giant plasma ball from the sun could cause a disaster, and how to prevent the chaos, 32 THE BIG FIX Keeping sharks away from people and fishing nets ROUGH SKETCH ‘A mobile brain scanner for radents. THERMODYNAMICS esis er ways to keep things ‘YOU BUILT WHAT?! 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Steve Sands San Diego Helium Deflation Bringing back airships is a nice fantasy (‘Airships Rise (Again),’ Headlines}, but the US. government is dumping its strategie supply of helium at below-market rates thanks to.an incredibly shortsighted decision a decade ago. Once that helium is gone, there will be no more. We can ex: tract it only from natural-gas wells; it cannot be manufac: 8 morusad st eyes (guty 201 tured or collected from TEED ie atmosphere Michael Pearce a) Portland, Ore Pynesp Sicanesee tion COM Your article “Bodies in Motion” notes that mo- tion sickness is caused by conflicts in visual and vestibular inputs [that is, when the movement of the vehicle around you doesn’t line up ‘with what your eyes are seeing]. 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