Volume 14 Issue 1112

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Dear Evil Engineer: Could I build a freeze ray appropriate to my icy new persona?

The eccentric engineer: How Mickey Mouse and ‘Fantasound’ revolutionised film music

Review

Hands-on review: AncestryDNA test kit

‘The discovery of primitive life on another planet wouldn’t change the world’: Andrew May, Astrobiology

Teardown: Apple iPad 7

Virtual reality hits the road (but hopefully not the moose)

A history of science in 20 objects

Comment

2020 visions of the past and future

‘We can stop the pollution at source’: Emily Penn, Exxpedition, on tackling ocean plastic

Review

Hands-on gadget review: Harry Potter Deluxe Invisibility Cloak

Flying cars take to the skies: top models rated

Holograms: imaging in a new dimension

Sci-fi wise guys: top writers’ predictions about the future

Fashion statement: a need for change

Round-the-world racing yachts: designed to survive

Forensic investigations: a step beyond fingerprints

Dual-use at Spurs’ stadium gives NFL a London base

Messages from the future

IET Global Challenge winners: in search of greener seas

2020 visions: forecasts from the past

Formula E: the journey so far and the road ahead

Exclusive

Richest councils recycle much less than the poorest

Comment

Whatever happened to the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

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