Double Helix Issue 67

Cover of 'Double Helix' magazine issue 67, featuring digital art of a yellow taxi drone flying through a city with brightly-lit skyscrapers.

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Let's talk transport tech: drones, automated trains, and self-driving cars and wheelchairs!

Delivery drones and self-driving cars – oh, my! This issue of Double Helix is all about transport tech. We've got scientists using drones to deliver medicine, destroy weeds, track endangered parrots and explore other planets. Meanwhile, scientists and engineers are automating everything from drills to trucks to entire trains. Even sharks are evolving new transport tech – by learning to walk! + Full description

If all this tech talk has you itching to get hands-on, you're in for a treat! You can make your own hovercraft or hand-powered helicopter, create a treasure map using all of your senses, or build a wind turbine do work for you.

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News

Issue publication date: 15 October 2023

Details

Magazine | October 2023 | $ 10.99
ISBN: DH09/67 | 40 pages | 297 x 210 mm
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Colour illustrations, Colour photographs

Features

Looking for science, technology, engineering and maths news? We've got you covered! Inside every issue you'll find articles, activities, puzzles, comics and prizes galore.

Features
WALKING SHARKS SAVE THE REEF – Explore the connections between sharks, climate change and First Nations peoples with Gunaikurnai scientist Courtney Burns
DESKTOP-DRIVING MINING MACHINES – Australia is using some of the biggest remote-controlled trucks in the world!
FLIGHT OVER ANOTHER WORLD – NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter is hard at work exploring Mars
TRACKING THE SWIFT PARROT – Debbie Saunders uses drones to keep tabs on the endangered swift parrot
A DRONE’S EYE VIEW OF FUTURE FARMING – CSIRO builds drones and robots to help Australia’s farms

Regulars
Snippets
Poster
Reviews
Time-travelling Shed
Planetary Post
Tech Timelines
Back of the Envelope
Microscope
Fiction

Activities
Hovercraft
Senses and Sensors
Build a Wind Turbine
Make It Comic
Puzzles

Competitions
Bird's Eye View
↑UU (Up to You)
Feed Me

Authors

The Double Helix team is part of CSIRO Publishing and has a long-standing reputation for delivering expertly written, fascinating and fun science material for young people, with an aim to foster an interest in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).