Australian Science Illustrated — Issue 54 2017
Alan Billis of the UK donated his body to be mummified. The accurate formula of how to make an ancient Egyptian mummy has been l ...
HISTORY EGYPT 62 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED The boy king died suddenly at the age of only 19 in 1323 BC, suggesting that he could hav ...
Drones Zero in on Drag Marks in the Desert Scientists aim to fly drones over the desert surrounding the pyramids, zooming in on ...
64 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED Doctors have scanned the brains of psychiatric patients to find out how psychedelic drugs alter their m ...
Could it soon be possible to prescribe psychedelic drugs such as LSD and mushrooms, for patients with anxiety and depression? St ...
66 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED Mushroom Drug 'Cures' Anxiety In medical experiments, the subjects do not consume mushrooms, rather the ...
The patient consumes a capsule with a carefully measured dose of pure psilocybin. The drug is on to the small intestine, where i ...
68 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED MAGMA CHAMBER Magma Heats the Ground Water Underground magma chambers heat the ground water to 5,000 de ...
scienceillustrated.com.au | 69 Supercritical Fluid Generates Extreme Quantities of Energy At temperatures above 374 degrees, whe ...
70 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED ground to slowly seep up from the hole. The vapour was more than 450 degrees hot – a new world record f ...
Power For 50,000 Homes If everything goes according to plan, supercritical fluid from the new well can generate electricity in a ...
72 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED Our oldest ancestor had no eyes. Instead, its face included a series of conical "waste shafts". Our old ...
scienceillustrated.com.au | 73 A fossilised face stares up through the microscope lens. The bizarre fossil provides scientists w ...
74 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED O ur ability to breathe above the water originated long before we began to live on dry land. The earlie ...
A small, rat-like creature ended up settling a debate between palaeontologists and geneticists. Via DNA from modern animals, gen ...
76 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED T he first primates crawled about 65 million years ago, in the time of Tyrannosaurus rex, according to ...
scienceillustrated.com.au | 77 In spite of 540 million years of evolution, we still cannot hide our relationship with the Saccor ...
78 | SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED 1 Cut out a piece of felt, which can cover the bottom of the vessel. Glue the felt to the bottom with s ...
Tiny Particles Collide with Vapour Molecules They are tinier than the tiniest of atoms, but they can change the world. Fill a bo ...
Terms like “blockchain”, “hash rate”, “mining”, “cryptocurrency” and “fork” all apply to what? Sericulture is the practice of t ...
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