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PM reader trip to Gansbaai, sponsored by VW SA

  On Saturday, Popular Mechanics hosted a group of 16 readers on a trip to Gansbaai, where they learned about shark behaviour, the science of shark tagging and the ongoing effort to protect these...

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April 2013

Most of you have probably never heard of Professor Henry Markram. This is about to change, because the South African-born neuroscientist is working on a hugely ambitious project that promises to pull...

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March 2013 issue

If gadgets are your thing, you’ll hopefully enjoy our 8-page report on the International CES, a ridiculously large gadget show that descends on Las Vegas once a year and transforms seemingly rational...

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May 2013 issue

A few weeks ago, we were privileged to meet a bunch of young tech-entrepreneurs who were participating in a thoroughly fascinating exercise. Together with their high-profile mentors, they were sailing...

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June 2013 issue

While researching this month’s cover story on designer prosthetics (“Out on a limb”, page 44), we stumbled upon a fascinating study by the University of Manchester’s Dr Jacky Finch into the efficacy...

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July 2013 issue

Let’s hear it for our dads My dad was a meticulous man. He stored screws, nuts and bolts in neatly labelled tins or bottles, always returned his tools to their designated places, and would never, ever...

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August 2013 issue

Many years ago, without the vaguest idea of what I was doing, or why, I stood guard at a mountain-top radar station in present-day Mpumalanga and greeted all visitors with a menacing look, an...

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September 2013 issue

Of flying cars and demon worms… Our cover story this month salutes some of the most exciting and revolutionary concepts in aviation, from a solar-powered record-setter of disarming fragility to a...

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October 2013 issue

Of peeping drones, origami kayaks and constitutional rights This month’s cover story, “Good drone, bad drone” (page 62), introduces the advanced technologies and highly capable flying machines that...

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November 2013 issue

INVASIVE – or simply a need to know? Our cover story this month on National Security Agency (NSA) data mining has nothing to do with paranoia or conspiracy theories. It’s about the ways in which...

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December 2013 issue

Groundbreaking concepts, ethical dilemmas… Be the first to know It’s that time of the year again. Goodwill abounds, relatives descend on us with reckless abandon, and our credit balance shrinks to a...

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January 2014 issue of Popular Mechanics

The lights are on, but nobody’s home I had an interesting argument the other day. I was chatting to an apparently sane man who suddenly went off at a tangent and began holding forth on “scientifically...

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February 2014 issue of Popular Mechanics

It’s time to get real. Our brains are lying to us This month’s cover story reveals the fascinating science behind strange and occasionally creepy phenomena that have haunted us for centuries,...

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PM reader trip to Gansbaai, sponsored by VW SA

Popular Mechanics readers were "thrilled" by the shark cage diving experience off Gansbaai, courtesy of VW's "Think Blue" initiative. Watch the video of the shark-cage diving escapades...The post PM...

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April 2013 issue

Most of you have probably never heard of Professor Henry Markram. This is about to change, because the South African-born neuroscientist is working on a hugely ambitious project that promises to pull...

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