Australian Science Illustrated – Issue 51 2017

60 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED establish a huge store for the benefit of science. “Biological banks with blood, urine, and amniotic fl ...

Your eyes are always tearing up The eye is surrounded by glands, ducts, and muscles, which make sure that tears always create th ...

62 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED The smell of women's tears makes men lose their sexual appetite, according to scientists who made men i ...

Three theories of why humans cry Humans are the only ones to cry – no other animals cry when they are sad. So, scientists have s ...

64 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED Fascinating insects, entangled cells, and sparkling minerals. When scientists activate their microscope ...

scienceillustrated.com.au | 65 The great silver water beetle is one of the largest aquatic insects. It lives in still freshwater ...

66 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED Scientists find it difficult to place slime moulds in the right category of life. The organism is neith ...

scienceillustrated.com.au | 67 The coiled proboscis allows butterflies to taste nectar, pollen, and other things which they enco ...

68 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED One of the most scary creatures of the forest floor is the centipede. During the night, it hunts small ...

scienceillustrated.com.au | 69 In 1951, American scientists isolated HeLa cells for the first time in a patient with cervical ca ...

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72 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED In the wake of a lethal flu epidemic, another nightmarish infection killed approximately one million pe ...

scienceillustrated.com.au | 73 N eurologist Constantin von Economo does not have a clue. He thoughtfully touches his thick, blac ...

74 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED something like “deadening brain inflammation”, but later, the disease is also known as von Economo dise ...

The dopamine neurotransmitter cannot reach the brain, as the blood-brain barrier blocks it out. Consequently, doctors use an ini ...

76 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED THEIR FACES WERE SMOOTH because they had not spent years smiling or frowning. sometimes jumping high up ...

scienceillustrated.com.au | 77 WONDER DRUG WOKE THE LIVING DEAD Forty years later, at the Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx, Ne ...

78 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED Artifical colouring: know it, SEE it HOME CHEMISTRY LAB Place a few drops of water on a piece of tin fo ...

scienceillustrated.com.au | 79 Salt water reveals colouring agents Are the colouring agents in your lollies composite products? ...