Science_Illustrated_Australia_-_Issue70_2019

Using the body’s own cells to help the brain Stem cells from the patient's own pelvis function as a private rescue service that ...

600 vo lts^ to^ p ara lys e^ pre y^ a nd^ pre dat ors . Paralysis-inducing electric shocks. Eyes that produce lightning. Living ...

By Lea Milling Korsholm & Lars Thomas Electric cells to paralyse prey The South American electric eel can generate up to 600 ...

Pigment converts sunlight into power The hornet’s epidermis and subcutis function like the top and bottom electrodes of a solar ...

Cartilage Fish uses electricity to hunt By emitting ripples of electrical signals from tail muscles, this elephant-nose fish can ...

Sharks feel the heartbeat of prey Sharks use electricity to sense the outside world, and indeed hammerhead sharks could not surv ...

By means of electrically-sensitive ampullae, hammerhead sharks can spot creatures hiding beneath the sand. The stargazer can pop ...

68 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED Quarks, the building blocks of protons and neutrons, interact strongly with the field, so they are heav ...

By Rolf Haugaard Nielsen In every corner of the universe, Higgs bosons cooperate to give mass to all atomic building blocks. Phy ...

70 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED The 14,000-tonne Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector is being modified to improve the chances of findi ...

Phase transition Right after the Big Bang, the Higgs field gave mass to matter One trillionth of a second after the Big Bang, th ...

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74 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED PHOTODOC BONES CERAMIC PRINTS 3D printed ceramics can grow together with living bone tissue. With powde ...

scienceillustrated.com.au | 75 By Andreas Ebbesen Jensen RUBBER BONES A hyperflexible material can help organic bones grow out. ...

76 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED PHOTODOC BONES BONE FILLING Removed bone segments are replaced by 3D-printed copies. ...

scienceillustrated.com.au | 77 Doctors often perform surgery on cancerous bones by removing the sick parts. An Australian team s ...

78 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED PHOTODOC BONES Canadian scientists replaced 70% of the dachshund Patches’ skull with titanium after rem ...

scienceillustrated.com.au | 79 The world’s fi rst face transplant was carried out in 2005. Today, surgeons analyse the patient’s ...

DO RLIN G^ K IND ERS LEY /GE TTY IM AGE S ANNE RIPPY/GETTY IMAGES Taste and smell are among our most sensitive of senses. Emotio ...