Science_Illustrated_Australia_-_Issue70_2019

By Tina Ibsen & Esben Schouboe New star discoveries indicate that the centre of the Milky Way was born in a series of galaxy ...

T he Big Bang is still resounding through the universe. Clouds of gas and dust collapse under their own gravity, turning into th ...

The galactic time machine: light from remote galaxies Observations of remote galaxies are a window into the past. Light from the ...

DEVELOPMENT Spiral galaxies have got it going on... Galaxies are divided into three types according to Edwin Hubble’s model. Spi ...

The oldest galaxies that have been discovered formed a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. The first galaxies of the u ...

in their external layers. They are known as metal-poor stars. Ever more heavy ele- ments were included as time progressed, so th ...

when gas and dust collapsed under the influence of gravity after the Big Bang. However, the 150 globular clusters do not rotate ...

SHU TTE RST OC K The Asian beauty rat snake strangles its prey instead of using venom – so it is harmless to people. 48 | SCIENC ...

By Gorm Palmgren Two million people are poisoned by snake bites annually, and 130,000 of them die. The treatment has been the sa ...

One of the reasons why the antivenom that we use today is both expensive and involves severe side-effects is the way in which it ...

3 new weapons combat venom Sophisticated DNA methods, synthetic antibodies and hungry nanoparticles – three new methods by which ...

With its huge wing area of more than 24m^2 , Perlan II ascends more efficiently than any glider before it. PERLAN^ II^ IS DESIGN ...

By Andreas Ebbesen Jensen The Perlan II glider beat the world record, gliding through the air 23km above Earth’s surface. Scient ...

54 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED Pilots Jim Payne and Tim Gardner in the record-setting Perlan II glider. up-current when the polar jet- ...

scienceillustrated.com.au | 55 Mountain ‘wave’ lifts glider to the stratosphere For only a few days a year, two major air curren ...

REGULAR SERIES Sclerosis can cause severe signal problems in the brain, as seen in this scan. SPL TH E^ BA TT LE OF T HE B RA IN ...

By Bo Christensen T he enemy has entered without your knowledge, and suddenly you are facing a highly trained killer who is alre ...

would suffer the major risk of invasion by lethal infections. Doctors also use adreno- cortical hormone, which curbs the infecti ...

Sclerosis is in the genes Scientists do not yet know why the immune system attacks the body’s healthy cells. But according to st ...

population. If both parents have multiple sclerosis, the child’s risk increases to 25%. Stem cells may stop slaughter A brighter ...