2020-04-02_Science_Illustrated

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It cannot bleed, its jaw is filled

with venom, and its skull is

protected by a natural armour.

Scientists have sequenced the

Komodo dragon's DNA and

discovered a series of genes

which make the lizard an

exceptional killer.

KOMODO

DRAGON:

designed to kill

The brain sends electric signals, the body's cells
work at full stretch, the arms move for months.
New experiments reveal a strange explosion of
life in the minutes, days, and months after death.

Your body comes

alive after death

THE ICE MOON

OF TITAN

A SHORT HISTORY

OF SURGERY

Warning: it's not pretty...

... and the

drone that

will search

for life there

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