Australian Science Illustrated – Issue 51 2017

embryo developed into a mouse with a random mixture of traits from the two species. A few years later, the method was used to cr ...

42 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED Endless winters, inbred families, and brutal killings. Soon, season 7 of the popular TV series Game of ...

scienceillustrated.com.au | 43 IS REVENGE REALLY SO SWEET? REVENGE ACTIVATES THE BRAIN'S REWARD CENTRE. LARGE WINGS COUNTERACT G ...

44 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED ICE Can Living Creatures Be Turned Into Zombies? Ladybirds, woodlice, and ants end up as zombies, as pa ...

1 Uranus takes 84 years to orbit the Sun once, so one year on the planet is 84 Earth years. 2 Like on Earth, each season lasts f ...

46 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED FIRE Can Fire Burn in or on Water? A sticky, highly inflammable gel mixed with an auto-ignitable materi ...

The Game of Thrones dragons can devastate entire cities and reduce people to ashes in a split second. No living creature spews f ...

48 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED FAMILIES Is revenge really sweet? Brain scans of test subjects show that revenge causes satisfaction in ...

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Young Joffrey is officially the son of Robert Baratheon and Cersei Lannister, but in reality, he is the inbred offspring of Cers ...

50 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED POTASSIUM CYANIDE STIFLES CELLS KILLINGS Which Poison is the Fastest and Most Discreet Killer? I n the ...

scienceillustrated.com.au | 51 In Game of Thrones, warlord Khal Drogo agrees to give Viserys Targayen a gold crown. The warlord ...

AS VERLAG 52 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED THE WORLD'S LONGEST TUNNEL In the 1960s, European rail traffic increased tremendously. The ol ...

scienceillustrated.com.auscienceillustrated.com.au || 53 53 After 10 years of exhausting drilling, the 15-km-long St. Gottard ra ...

54 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED 1875 Workers go on strike. Four lose their lives in police attack. 1879 The man behind the tunnel, Loui ...

scienceillustrated.com.au | 55 established a number of reference points, and based on those, Favre’s engineers decided the tunne ...

56 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED Construction killed the initiator Favre was not an engineer by training and had very little experience ...

scienceillustrated.com.au | 57 The construction of the St. Gotthard Base Tunnel is one of history’s major engineering jobs. Afte ...

58 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED An Israeli brain researcher aims to establish a bank with frozen human tears, from which scientists fro ...

scienceillustrated.com.au | 59 Tears more than salt water. Apart from salt and sugar, the drops include natural antibiotics, pai ...