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Science Uncovered - October 2014 UK PDF
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BIZARRE
ANIMAL
DEFENCES
Breakthroughs that will radically transform your way of life Turn to p82
HUMANS
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your brain, your skin and more
Colin Stuart
Dr Christian Jarrett
Writer & editor
+ A cognitive neuroscientist by
training, on page 44 Christian
explores why we forget, as well as some bizarre
memory phenomena, such as earworms and
the reminiscence bump.
Michael Whiteley
Loughborough University
+ Michael is a research scientist
investigating hydrogen fuel cells.
On page 58, he looks inside the new technology
that will suck CO 2 out of the atmosphere,
potentially reducing global warming.
Hayley Birch
Duncan Geere
Science journalist
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25 MOST INCREDIBLE
SIGHTS IN THE UNIVERSE
Coronal mass ejections, Titans
methane lakes, the Cats Eye Nebula
and other must-see cosmic sights.
SPACE UNCOVERED
HUMANS UNCOVERED
30 25 Most Incredible
Sights in the Universe
ENGINEERING UNCOVERED
NATURE UNCOVERED
44 Why we Forget
58 Carbon Capturing
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SPACE
CONTENTS
REGULARS
8 Science Shot
Stunning images brought
to life with science.
14 Intelligence
The latest dispatches from
the world of science.
22 Ask a Scientist
Our panel of experts answer
your questions.
94 DIY Science
Build a simple electric motor,
and measure pH with a cabbage.
98 Antimatter
Notes from the bizarre side
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atures t angest defences
66
or s largest eed vault
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Is a worldwide Ebola crisis imminent?
TECHNOLOGY UNCOVERED
ON THE COVER + Your quick guide to whats inside this fact-packed issue
82 10 Home
Tech Innovations
76 Bizarre
Animal Defences
The home-changing
technologies that will
change the way you live
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30 25 Most Incredible
Sights in the Universe
Celebrate the beauty of the
cosmos, from Saturns rings to
the planet made of diamond
66 Doomsday
Seed Vault
The underground bunker
safeguarding the future
of all plant life
80 Fossil Hoaxes
From Piltdown Man to
Archaeoraptor ancient
treasures that werent
54 Sugars
Hidden Dangers
Why the World Health
Organization says we all
need to cut down now
SCIENCESHOT
SCALED UP
Viewed close up, the scaly plumage of the
butterfly comes into view
PHOTO IWAN PRUVIC / SOLENT NEWS
+ A butterys proboscis.
It is used to suck up food,
such as nectar and pollen
from owers, and is
controlled by its own set
of muscles.
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lives for 20-40 days
SCIENCE SHOT
Christie Wilcox
SCIENCE SHOT
STORM
BREWING
NASA captures cloud
formation from above
PHOTO NASA / STU BROCE
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Seen from a height of 19km (12 miles) up, these clouds over the
Southern Appalachian Mountains in the US seem tranquil. But
in fact they form a storm cell, the smallest building block of a storm
system which can consist of just one or many cells. A storm cell is a
mass of air that contains loops of upwards and downwards air
currents moving within it. This rare glimpse of what a storm looks
like from above was taken by NASA from a high-altitude aircraft,
as part of a study carried out with the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration and Duke University into precipitation
over mountain regions.
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Calcium carbonate is
found in animals shells
SCIENCE SHOT
LOOKING ROSY
Calcium carbonate takes on a floral appearance
PHOTO SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
These calcium carbonate crystals form a
microscopic rose garden. The crystals are
made up of hexagonal plates, which group together
in spherical configuration called varetites. Theyre
incredibly tiny this image was taken using a
scanning electron microscope, and shows a group
of rosette-shaped varetites just 69 millionths of a
metre across. Calcium carbonate is commonly found
in rocks such as limestone, chalk and marble. Its
used in medicine as an antacid to treat heartburn,
and is also used in industry as a building material,
to purify iron ore, and as a water pH regulator in
swimming pools.
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Wax typically
melts at 45C
SCIENCE SHOT
Dr Paul Coxon
Materials scientist,
University of Cambridge
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CHANGING
STATES
The material that can switch
between hard and soft
PHOTO COURTESY OF
THE RESEARCHERS
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SCIENCE SHOT
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Measuring up to 14,000
nanometres in length, the
Ebola virus is relatively large
INTELLIGENCE
Breakthroughs explained
A BRIEF HISTORY OF
THE EBOLA
VIRUS
1976 FIRST RECORDED OUTBREAK
IN YAMBUKU, ZAIRE
@SciUncovered
55%
is the case fatality
rate of the current
Ebola outbreak
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READER REACTION!
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INTELLIGENCE
Breakthroughs explained
FOUR-WINGED DINO
PROVIDES INSIGHT
INTO FLIGHT
WORDS BY Dr
Darren Naish
Changyuraptor yangi
lived in China around
125 million years ago
60%
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changyuraptor was
than the previous
record-holder for
four-winged dinosaurs,
Microraptor zhaoianus
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DOGS ARE
JEALOUS TYPES
+ Its something that owners will have
suspected for a long time dogs experience envy.
Researchers at the University of California in San
Diego studied 36 dogs across 14 breeds and
found that they were mostly unresponsive when
their owners read a book, but changed their
behaviour once the owner began to pay attention
to a toy. A quarter of the dogs snapped at the toy,
while only one snapped at the book. Other dogs
barked, wagged their tails or tried to force their
way between the owner and the toy.
This new research backs up an observation by
Charles Darwin in 1871: Everyone has seen how
jealous a dog is of his masters aection, if
lavished on any other creature.
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CATCHES
05 ROSETTA
ITS COMET
+ After a decade-long chase thats spanned 405
million kilometres, the Rosetta spacecraft has
rendezvoused with comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko and beamed back fascinating
images of its surface. The next key landmark will
come in November when its lander probe, Philae,
will attempt to reach the comets surface.
Analysing the comets composition should give us
new insights into the early days of the Solar
System, since comets are remnants of debris left
over from the systems formation.
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INTELLIGENCE
Breakthroughs explained
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SEALS AFFECTED
06 FUR
BY CLIMATE CHANGE
+ Antarctic fur seals are becoming
smaller and breeding later all
thanks to the eect of warmer
seas on krill, their primary food
source. The British Antarctic
Survey has noticed a 27-year trend
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TOMB
12 CHINESE
YIELDS TREASURE
+ Life-sized chariots and treasure made
from gold, silver and bronze have been
discovered in a 2,100-year-old tomb built
for a Chinese king. Archaeologists from
the Museum of Nanjing believe the tomb,
hidden up a mountain in Jiangsu province,
eastern China, was created for Liu Fei,
who died in 128BC. The tomb had already
been looted, but still housed thousands of
artefacts. It would have contained items
the king needed for the afterlife, including
a kitchen. The ndings were reported in
the journal Chinese Archaeology.
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SCIENCE AT HOME
Explaining the science of your surroundings
Dr Michael Banks
SPINNING TOP
DEFYING GRAVITY
USING TORQUE
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THE SLINKY
WALKING DOWN STAIRS BY
SHIFTING ENERGY
For the uninitiated, a Slinky is a
simple toy consisting of a helical
spring made from plastic or metal. It has
been enjoyed for well over half a century
thanks to its amazing ability to walk
down stairs unaided. While this motion
might look easy enough, the physics
behind it is fairly complex. Every object
has stored, or potential, energy and when
placed at the top of the stairs the Slinky
will, of course, stay perfectly still. But as
you set the spring on its way, by pulling
one end down on to the next stair below,
this potential energy is transferred to
kinetic energy energy due to motion.
As the Slinky coils on the step below, this
kinetic energy shifts like a wave along
its length to the other end. Much like
when you crack a whip, all the energy
travels through to the end of it. This
pulsing energy then makes the Slinky
continue down to the next step and
the process continues.
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SCIENCE AT HOME
Physics of toys
PAPER AEROPLANE
STAYING AIRBORNE USING AERODYNAMICS
The farthest flight by a paper
aircraft made from a single sheet
of uncut A4 paper currently stands at
69.14m. That mighty feat was achieved
by US television producer John Collins
and his friend Joe Ayoob on 26 February,
2012. For any aeroplane to fly, paper or
otherwise, it must have two things: lift
and stability. After launch, as the plane
moves forward, its wings cut through
the air to generate a small amount of
lift, which counteracts the force of
gravity that pushes it down. As the lift
NEWTONS CRADLE
ENERGY CONSERVATION IN ACTION
A toy thats more often found on
shelves in offices than in the
hands of children, it was given the
name Newtons cradle by English
actor Simon Prebble in honour of the
legendary physicist. Swing a ball back
and when hits the first of the four
beneath, it stops immediately. It has
zero kinetic and potential energy. The
law of conservation of energy states
energy cant be created or destroyed
the energy must go somewhere.
Its transferred into ball two, which
then transfers its energy to ball
three, and so on. When the energy
reaches ball five, it doesnt have
another ball to pass its energy to. So
when it compresses under impact (as
its predecessors have done each by
a minute amount) and then returns to
@SciUncovered
Dr Michael Banks
Writer and physicist
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THE SCIENTISTS
1.39
million kilometres is
the diameter of
the Sun
Dr Chris Lintott
University of Oxford
+ A co-presenter on the BBC Four
astronomy show The Sky at Night,
Chris also runs citizen science projects to
investigate galaxy formation, discover new
planets and more. @chrislintott
Christie Wilcox
University of Hawaii
+ While living on Oahu, Christie is
pursuing a PhD in cell and
molecular biology. Her particular interest is the
toxins of venomous ocean creatures such as
the lionfish. @NerdyChristie
Dr Matthew Genge
Dr Kristina Killgrove
University of West Florida
Dr Ian Mabbett
Swansea University
+ From the inner workings of steel,
to bold new materials, Ian is an
engineer whose research will change the way we
build. Hes currently studying materials that
generate energy. @Materials_Live
Dr Paul Coxon
University of Cambridge
+ As a materials scientist,
Pauls studies span physics,
energy and X-rays. Hes at the forefront of
research into nanotechnology the science
of the very small. @paulcoxon
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Equivalent to 167mph,
the record was set by Fred
Rompelberg in 1995
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Thanks to its low oxygen content, the
Black Sea has preserved many artefacts
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Why do lions
have manes?
Chris Rogers COLWYN BAY, WALES
HUM A NS
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Whats beneath
tectonic plates?
Helen Bush BY EMAIL
Theres a common
misconception that tectonic
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However, the mantle beneath the
plates is actually mostly solid.
Tectonic plates consist of crust
and an underlying layer of rigid
mantle called the lithosphere.
Below these is a malleable layer
of mantle called the
asthenosphere. The main
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lithosphere is temperature the
hotter, deeper asthenosphere is
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asphalt. The asthenosphere melts
to form magma only where it
rises or where water is added. MG
The faster youre
travelling on a bike, the
less likely you are to fall
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ASK A SCIENTIST
HUM A NS
APOCALYPSE NOW?
WHAT IF EARTHS TEMPERATURE
SUDDENLY ROSE BY 10C?
Extreme global warming would have catastrophic impacts
on our habitats and how we could feed ourselves
What sort of temperature rises
are we seeing at the moment?
Currently, global temperatures
are rising at a rate of around
0.1C per decade so a rise
of 10C would be highly
significant indeeed.
What could cause such a jump?
Such a large temperature rise
would be the result of very large
increases in atmospheric CO2,
says Dr Douglas Crawford-Brown,
director of the Cambridge Centre
for Climate Change Mitigation
Research, in the UK. This in itself
would give rise to plenty of
problems, including increased
acidity in our oceans and the
death of coral reef systems.
If this rise happened, wouldnt
things just feel a bit warmer?
The impact on the UKs weather
would be extreme. There are the
obvious increases in temperature,
with summers and winters both
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By as much as 10 metres,
although this would take place
over a more gradual period. This
would leave us less space, so wed
also be crammed into a much
smaller area.
Would it affect what crops we
could grow, too?
It would. Crop yield would reduce
by about 50-60% globally, says
Crawford-Brown. We would
probably have to shift to highertemperature crops. These
include tomatoes, peppers and
cucumbers. Lettuce, cabbage and
broccoli are among those that
would struggle.
What about our health overall?
This could actually be larger than
youd expect. We would need to
shift our locations into higher
latitudes, where adverse effects
from cold winters would be
reduced, but adverse effects of
hot summers would increase and
infectious diseases would
increase, says Crawford-Brown.
Estimates suggest something
on the order of 10-30 million
extra deaths per year globally at
this temperature. So while a
warmer planet might sound
appealing during a British
summer, its one wed be wise
to take measures to avoid.
SPACE
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people to travel across
seas by boat?
Alice Hunt SUNDERLAND, ENGLAND
SPACE
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SCIENCE OF SCI-FI
#11: PHASERS
Will we ever end up wielding
Star Treks pocket-sized
energy blasters?
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ASK A SCIENTIST
HUM A NS
SPACE
SPACE
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T ECHNOLOG Y
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Americas, the Aztec, Mayan and Incan
empires all had counting devices, too.
Another form of ancient computer is
the Antikythera mechanism, found
on a Greek shipwreck dating to
150-100 BC. This device was able to
predict eclipses and positions of
heavenly bodies through its complex
gear mechanism, inscribed with
Greek months of the year and symbols
of the zodiac. Its why the Antikythera
mechanism is often considered the
earliest example of an analogue
computer, even though it wasnt used
for quantity calculations. KK
An inferior mirage seen
in a Libyan desert
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Sterling silver is a
common alloy
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copper, which helps to
give the metal strength
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Colin Stuart
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SPACE UNCOVERED
Titan
The world of methane
lakes and rivers
Weve only ever landed on the
surface of two natural
satellites our own and Titan.
The reason for the interest in
the Solar Systems secondlargest moon is its atmosphere
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it is the only moon in the
Solar System to boast such a
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liquid methane but it carves
coastlines similar to Earths.
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Caloris Basin
CME up close
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NASHVILLE, US
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SPACE UNCOVERED
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These include
blue, yellow, brown,
green and pink
Omega
Centauri
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The Great
Red Spot
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PSR-J1719-1438 b
The most valuable planet out there
Orbiting a rapidly rotating pulsar, this world is comprised of carbon
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go PSR-J1719-1438 b is 4,000 lightyears, or 3.78421136 1016
kilometres away from our planet.
Horsehead Nebula
A delicate beauty
The theme of naming objects
after Earthly doppelgngers is
a common one. Found in the
constellation of Orion, just
below his famous belt, the
Horsehead Nebula is a cold dark
cloud of gas and dust. The nebula
is normally seen in silhouette
against a pink background of
glowing hydrogen gas.
However, this infrared image,
taken to celebrate the 23rd
birthday of the Hubble Space
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delicate composition. The
sinuous structure is illuminated
by light from a nearby bright star
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@SciUncovered
Halleys Comet
measures 15km by 8km
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NGC 3603
A stellar nursery in our galaxy
Young blue stars glimmer like
precious jewels in this starforming region of our Milky
Way galaxy, in the Carina
spiral arm. The stars, which
are more massive than the
Sun, are thought to be only
one or two million years old.
That may sound ancient, but
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The 2014
Hubble
Ultra Deep Field
The view that shows how vast the
Universe is
Every speck, smudge and spot in this
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contains some of the most distant
galaxies ever observed, which came
into existence only a few hundred
million years after the Big Bang.
Originally captured between
September 2003 and January 2004, this
new version was released in June 2014
and includes ultraviolet and nearinfrared light. But the staggering thing
is that the image only shows a patch of
sky you could cover by holding a grain
of sand at arms length.
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SPACE UNCOVERED
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Halleys Comet
The celestial ice show
SPACE UNCOVERED
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galaxies is quite common
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Sombrero
Galaxy
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Penguin
galaxy
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Europe at night
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Saturn has 53
named moons
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provisional moons, whose
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SPACE UNCOVERED
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Olympus
Mons
The giant peak of the
Red Planet
Mount Everest looks like a hill
compared to this colossal
structure which climbs 22km
high into the Martian sky.
Three times higher than our
tallest mountain, Marss
extinct volcano Olympus
Mons is the highest peak in
the Solar System, after a
mountain on the large
asteroid Vesta.
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Hyperion
10
Arp 273
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SPACE UNCOVERED
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Northern
Lights
A night-time vision of
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These exquisite dancing
curtains of light are the
result of an interaction
between the Sun and Earth.
As charged particles in the
solar wind distort our
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through the top layers
of the atmosphere,
triggering aurorae.
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The Pillars of
Creation
Crab Nebula
A dense cloud of beauty
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Earths though it is equivalent
to 29 of our years
SPACE UNCOVERED
Solar eclipse
A celestial alignment
Truly one of natures
greatest spectacles. When
the Moon slides in front of
the Sun, our star is
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view. Eclipses provide the
perfect opportunity to
study the corona the
normally invisible
outermost layer of the Sun.
Double
2 sunset
on Kepler-16b
The real Tatooine
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two incredible sunsets, not just
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circumbinary planet to be
discovered it orbits two stars.
As if that werent enough, the
two stars eclipse one another
roughly every three weeks. The
planet was found by NASAs
Kepler planet-hunting mission.
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Saturns rings
Colin Stuart
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SPACE UNCOVERED
Georges Lematre
was a Catholic priest
THE BIRTH OF
OUR UNIVERSE
Around 13.8 billion years ago, in a moment too brief to
imagine and at temperatures too high to comprehend,
space and time came into being
WORDS BY
Paul Sutherland
stronomers have come up
with a mind-boggling
picture of how the Universe
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TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES
10 billion trillion trillion degrees
Celsius to a relatively cool 10 trillion
degrees Celsius, and the Universe
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start to a diameter of around one
billion kilometres. The fundamental
forces of nature strong nuclear, weak
nuclear, electromagnetic and
gravitational had separated out, too.
PLASMA SOUP
From the original bundle of energy
emerged a hot soup of plasma
containing fundamental particles and
antiparticles. Reactions between these
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and other heavier particles and
within 100 seconds, when the
Universe had already grown to many
hundreds of lightyears wide, the nuclei
of virtually all its helium atoms had
formed. Following this incredibly
active start, there followed a period
lasting many thousands of years when
the Universe continued its relentless
expansion it continued to cool, but
everything was still too energetic for
particles to stay together long enough
for any atoms to be produced.
It wasnt until about 300,000 years
after the Big Bang, when temperatures
had dropped to around 2,500C, that
protons and atomic nuclei could
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was a key supporter of the theory
SPACE UNCOVERED
POTENTIAL FATES
FOR THE UNIVERSE
Our Universe may be one of many, or
could shrink again in a Big Crunch
COSMIC BRUISING?
Some scientists, such as Sir
Roger Penrose (see right), claim
to have detected circular patterns
in the CMB that they suggest are
the aftermath of collisions with
other universes. Other scientists,
however, remain sceptical.
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SPACE UNCOVERED
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the term Big Bang
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between Lematres ideas and his own
CATACLYSMIC FLASH
40
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GETTY IMAGES
THE CONSTANTLY
CHANGING SHAPE
OF THE UNIVERSE
Several spacecraft
have studied the CMB
SPACE UNCOVERED
Paul Sutherland
Space writer
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SERGE LACHINOV
GETTY IMAGES
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from Baiknour Cosmodrome
SPACE UNCOVERED
UKS GREAT
SPACE RACE
STORNOWAY AIRPOR
Located on the Isle of Lewis, thi
used to be mainly used for militar
purposes. Now it is used mostly for
domestic passenger flights.
Sarah Cruddas
The launchpad
is now known as
Gagarins Start
CAMPBELTOWN AIRPORT
Military operations stopped here in
1997, and it has a runway length of
over 3km the longest runway of
any public airport in Scotland.
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there between 1993 and 1994
AF LOSSIEMOUTH
favourite with industry experts.
orth Scotland would be an ideal
location as it already has launch and
aerospace structures in place, says
Robin Sampson, spacecraft sales
anager at Clyde Space.
AF LEUCHARS
nother favourite, this site
lready boasts radar and
ommunication equipment. Its
longest runway is 2,589m.
OTHER SPACEPORTS
AROUND THE WORLD
INLOSS BARRACKS
KEY CRITERIA
IN SELECTING A
SPACEPORT SITE
SPACE UNCOVERED
SPACEPORT AMERICA
+ Located in the Jornada del Muerto
desert in New Mexico, US, this is the
worlds rst custom-built commercial
spaceport and home to the likes of Virgin
Galactic and SpaceX. It will soon boast a
visitors centre and hotel for a complete
space experience.
IMAGE STAHLKOCHER
SPACEPORT SWEDEN
LANBEDR AIRPORT
BAIKONUR COSMODROME
EWQUAY CORNWALL AIRPORT
he only candidate site in England,
Newquay benefits from uncongested
airspace, as well as one of the longest
runways in the UK (2,744m) able to
support aircraft of any size.
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The majority of
these are housed
in the cerebellum
INSIDE THIS
SECTION
+ Connections between
neurons are called
synapses. At these
junctions, messages are
carried between cells
via chemicals called
neurotransmitters.
50 HOW TO BUILD A
BIONIC HAND
This newly developed
prosthesis can restore a
sense of touch to amputees
but how?
54 SUGAR UNCOVERED!
Take a look at exactly
zkdw#wkh#vzhhw#vwx#grhv#
to your body.
44
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HUMANS UNCOVERED
Science of memory
Why we
forget
@SciUncovered
Christian Jarrett
involved in remembering: the initial
encoding stage, storage in long-term
memory and then retrieval. The more
deeply we think about information
zkhq#zh#uvw#hqfrxqwhu#lw/#wkh#pruh#
robust the encoding process and the
more likely it will be consolidated into
long-term memory. However, often
what is stored long-term is the gist
or meaning of what happened, rather
than a literal representation. Thats
why you can remember the plot from
the last book you read, but quickly
forget the precise wording.
STRONG WEB
In biological terms, memories
are formed through the changing
strength of connections between
neurons. This leads to the creation
of web-like neuronal assemblies
or matrices, in which related
information and experiences are
interconnected. Each memory
matrix includes the context in which
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which is why recall is often easier
if you can revisit the circumstances
in which the original encoding took
45
HUMANS UNCOVERED
Science of memory
46
DIFFERENT PROCESSES
Note that recognition memory is
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something in the sense that we are
unable to recall it, and yet the memory
is in there. For instance, you might
not be able to name a school classmate
seen in an old photograph, but if given
a list of names, you would immediately
recognise the correct one. Research
has shown that recognition memory
relies on distinct neural pathways
from the deliberate act of recall.
Remembering is an active,
constructive process. Brain imaging
studies show that recalling the past
involves the same brain regions as
when we imagine the future. This
helps explain Clintons variety of
memory failure. Rather than our
experiences being laid down like data
on a computers hard drive, each act
of reminiscence is a fresh creation.
This leaves our autobiographical
memories highly prone to suggestion
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overload, reducing the amount of
recent memories stored
HUMANS UNCOVERED
Science of memory
FOUR BIZARRE
MEMORY PHENOMENA
Some of the weirdest ways in which our memories
can fail us are surprisingly common
INFANTILE AMNESIA
+ The earliest of our
memories are usually
from when we were
aged three or four. What
happens to memories of
our first years? We seem
to forget them from
around age seven. Before that, children can reminisce
about much of what happened. But their memories
are immature, lacking mention of time and place. Its
thought this contributes to the later forgetting.
CHOOSING TO FORGET
Yet another way that we forget is by
choosing to. Psychologists call this
process directed forgetting. In 2009,
Dr Peter Delaney and his colleagues
at the University of North Carolina
at Greensboro, in the US, presented
their participants with two lists of
sentences one about Tom, the other
EARWORMS
+ Its not just forgetting
thats annoying its
also unwanted memories
that come to mind.
An everyday example
is when a song starts
playing in your head an
earworm. We are most prone when tired or bored, and
songs that we enjoy have the most earworm potential.
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HUMANS UNCOVERED
Science of memory
48
Dr Christian Jarrett
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HUMANS UNCOVERED
How to build
a bionic hand
50
Cormier
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TOUCH TYPES
Being able to feel the objects they
touch as well as move them gives
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degree of control, illustrating the point
that touch isnt just a sense. Its a tool,
and one we need to be able to navigate
and manipulate the world around us.
While we think of touch as just
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complex and made up of a variety of
HUMANS UNCOVERED
Building a bionic hand
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HUMANS UNCOVERED
PHANTOM LIMBS
Zoe Cormier
Science writer
Amputees can feel pain in limbs they no longer have but why?
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HUMANS UNCOVERED
2 SIGNAL CONVERSION
The signal is converted by a series of computer algorithms
into a language the nervous system can understand.
Biological systems and electrical components use different
forms of electricity, so the signal must be translated before
being sent on to the brain.
3 IMPLANTED ELECTRODE
4 SPINAL CORD
The signal is relayed to the spine via the receptive or
afferent nerves. Once in the spine, the signal is then
relayed to the brain.
5 MESSAGE RECEIVED
The signal is passed to the somatosensory cortex, a strip of
tissue on the outermost surface of the brain. This is a map
of the sensation of touch in the human body different
regions correspond to different anatomical parts.
7 SIGNAL CONVERSION
A different set of electrodes implanted in the arm receive
the signal, which then convert the electrical signals of the
nervous system back into the language of the electronic
components in the hand, instructing the fingers to move.
8 ACTION
The fingers move, and the fly is shooed away. Tension in the
artificial tendons that control the fingers is measured, the
signal converted, and the sensation of feeling the fingers
move is relayed to the brain.
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Sugar
Sugar is rotting our teeth, expanding our waistlines
and ravaging our internal organs. Perhaps its time
sugar lost its sweet reputation for good
WORDS BY
CHOCOLATE
MILKSHAKE
50.7g per 500ml bottle
REAPPRAISING SUGAR
In 2009, University of California, San
Francisco pediatrician Dr Robert
Lustig posted a lecture on YouTube
called Sugar: the Bitter Truth, citing
Yudkins theories. The video has had
nearly five million views, and Yudkins
book has since been republished.
However, not everyone agrees
with Lustigs conclusions, nor with
some of his more radical suggestions,
such as banning the sale of fizzy
drinks to minors. In an interview with
the New York Times, Lustig himself
outlined exactly how his views diverge
from those of other leading
nutritionists. And Dr David Katz, head
of the Yale-Griffin Prevention
Research Center, penned a public
rebuttal of Lustigs lecture for the
Huffington Post, arguing that singling
out any single nutrient as evil and
eliminating it from the diet is a fallacy
that can do more harm than good.
But while Lustigs viewpoint may
be extreme, nutritionists do agree
that too much sugar is a bad idea, and
in March 2014 the World Health
Organization recommended that
average daily consumption should be
halved. So one lump or two?
BOLOGNESE
SAUCE
14.4g per
200g portion
BANANAS
12g per 100mg
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YOGURT
HUMANS UNCOVERED
The truth about sugar
TOMATO
KETCHUP
COLA
35g per 330ml can
1
DIGESTION
Our body starts digesting food as soon as we take
a bite. Sugar is processed faster than fats and
proteins. Different enzymes digest different
sugars for example, lactase breaks down
lactose, and sucrase breaks down sucrose. Most
sugar digestion occurs in the small intestine.
2
ABSORPTION
Once the sugars have been broken down, they
travel into the bloodstream. Fruit and veg provide
fibre as well as sugar, which slows digestion and
promotes a feeling of satiation, so were less likely
to gorge ourselves. This is why naturally occurring
sugars are not as harmful as added sugars.
3
REACTION
When sugar levels in the blood increase, the
pancreas starts to release insulin. This allows the
sugar to pass into the bodys cells, causing a fall in
blood-sugar levels. If refined sugars have been
eaten, this happens very quickly, causing a rapid
spike in blood-sugar levels followed by a slump.
RECOMMENDED SUGAR
INTAKE FOR ADULTS
25g per day
(World Health Organization)
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ADDICTION
When this slump takes place, you may reach for a
chocolate bar or fizzy drink to get that high back.
Sugar causes the feel-good dopamine to be
released, giving it addictive qualities. Professor
David Ludwig from Harvard University carried out
MRI scans on patients and found that sugar
activated the same brain areas as cocaine.
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HUMANS UNCOVERED
IN NUMBERS
27%
of five-year-olds in
England had tooth
decay in 2013
Source: Public Health England
CONSUMPTION OF
COCA-COLA DRINKS
PER PERSON IN 2012
(227ML SERVINGS)
MEXICO = 745
CHILE = 486
PANAMA = 416
USA = 401
ARGENTINA = 364
WHAT SUGAR
DOES
TO
THE
BODY
+ As research builds up a bigger picture of the risks
HEART
Source: Statista
11%
OF UK ADULTS CONSUMPTION
OF ADDED SUGAR COMES
FROM ALCOHOL
Source: NHS
1912
WAS THE YEAR BRITAINS FIRST
SUGAR BEET FACTORY OPENED
3
4
DIABETES
56
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tooth enamel even sugar-free
versions cause damage
HUMANS UNCOVERED
The truth about sugar
3.2
MILLION
PEOPLE IN THE UK ARE
BRAIN
LIVER
TONNES
BRAZIL = 38.7 MILLION
INDIA = 26 MILLION
TONNES
TONNES
CHINA = 11.5 MILLION
TONNES
THAILAND = 10.1 MILLION
TONNES
USA = 7.2 MILLION
Biggest sugar-producing
nations, 2010-2011
22,700
bees are needed to make
one jar of honey
Source: Omlet.co.uk
5
5
SKIN
As well as making us fat and unhealthy, a sweetfilled diet can also accelerate the ageing process,
leaving our skin looking lacklustre. This is because too much
sugar can cause collagen and elastin to break down, meaning
that skin loses its suppleness and starts developing wrinkles
and a saggy appearance.
59KG
of sugar is consumed per
year by each American
Source: Online Nursing Programs
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SECTION
64 DIESEL ENGINEERING
BEHEMOTH
See how the worlds most
powerful diesel engine
powers the largest ships.
66 THE DOOMSDAY
SEED VAULT
Deep in the Arctic, The
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
is safeguarding plant life.
58
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ENGINEERING UNCOVERED
+ Carbon capturing
Michael Whiteley
IMAGE THINKSTOCK
WORDS BY
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ENGINEERING UNCOVERED
+ Carbon capturing
60
DIRRECT CAPTURE
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switching to renewable energy,
building solar farms and wind
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suck CO2 out of the atmosphere?
Thats precisely what Canadian
company Carbon Engineering is
working on, and it is starting to see
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You may well have heard of carbon
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is the process of removing carbon
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The CO2 is transported elsewhere and
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you need to have the space available
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on the other hand, has developed a
technology that can be placed
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extracts CO2 from the atmosphere,
and the technology doesnt need to be
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location you desire even the most
barren, otherwise unusable land
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Currently, the concentration of CO2
in the air is around 400 parts per
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lot, but is plenty enough to cause
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coming out of a power plant chimney
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ENGINEERING UNCOVERED
+ Carbon capturing
Artists impression of
the carbon capturing
technology being
developed by
Carbon Engineering
MAN VS NATURE
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take in CO2 and release oxygen (O2,1#
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Carbon Engineering turbocharges this
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500 tons of CO2 per square kilometre,
whereas air capture can process as
much as 500,000 tons of CO2 per
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glr{lgh#fdswxuh/#wrr1#Wkh#FR2 is
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AN ALTERNATIVE
CARBON CAPTURE PROJECT
The cement industry could soon become much greener
+ Cement production is normally considered to be a large
polluter when it comes to CO2. Currently, it constitutes
5% of global emissions more than the aviation industry.
However, that might soon become a thing of the past.
A new method of producing cement by mimicking nature
could actually absorb CO2.
Corals and other sea creatures use CO2 and seawater
minerals, such as magnesium and calcium, to create
their strong exoskeletons. When these animals die,
they eventually sink to the bottom of the ocean and can
form calcium carbonate. Using this principle, we can
dramatically reduce CO2 emissions from the cement
industry by trying to match what nature does.
The US company, Calera, is developing an innovative
system in which CO2 emissions are captured from
industrial sources. The gas is combined with an alkaline
such as caustic soda and calcium to form a solid,
calcium carbonate-based cement. The CO2 is therefore
captured within the material forever.
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ENGINEERING UNCOVERED
+ Carbon capturing
METAL SPONGES
A significant percentage
of our waste from
homes and factories is
sent to landfill, where
it decomposes. As the
rubbish breaks down,
landfill gas is produced,
which is a mixture of
methane (CH4) and
carbon dioxide (CO2). This
gas can be captured via
a large cap on the landfill
site, and can be burned
and used to heat homes
or generate electricity. As
well as preventing the gas
from reaching the
atmosphere, bad smells
would be reduced.
Metal Organic
Frameworks (MOF) are
compounds of metal
ions arranged to form
three-dimensional
sponge shapes around
an organic molecule.
These MOFs can trap all
sorts of nasties, such
as sulphur compounds
and volatile organic
compounds. Theyre a
way off from becoming
commonplace, but
researchers are working
on ways to make them
better at filtering and
capturing these gases.
METHANE
ZEOLITES
Another potential way
to capture methane
is to use something
called zeolites, porous
minerals comprised of
silicon, aluminium and
oxygen. CO2 is relatively
easy to capture as it
can be done physically
and chemically, but
methane is quite a
bit trickier. However,
zeolites can adsorb CH4
gas, integrating the
molecules into their
material structure,
and can then be safely
disposed of,
taking the harmful
methane with them.
GAS CONVERTER
BIOFILTERS
Methane (CH4) is
the second most
concentrated greenhouse
gas in the atmosphere
after CO2 and 16% of CH4
emissions come from
cattle farming. Bacteria
found in woodland
soil are natures way
of keeping this gas in
check. Its estimated
that around 30 million
tons of CH4 per year are
absorbed by bacteria
named methanotrophs
that take in CH4 and use
it to produce carbon to
live. Researchers in the
US are testing biofilter
designs as a greener way
to reduce the amount of
methane in landfill sites.
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capture machine to process up to
100,000 tons of CO2 per year,
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633/333#fduv#hplvvlrqv1
As the air capture slabs can be
placed anywhere on the planet, they
could be positioned in an area where
there are already renewable energy
installations, such as wind turbines
that could provide them with the
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Air capture could also be used to
create hydrocarbon-based fuels, such
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achieved by combining the harvested
CO2 molecules with hydrogen
generated from renewable electrolysis
ri#zdwhu1#Vr#frpelqlqj#dlu#fdswxuh#
Michael Whiteley
Research scientist
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ENGINEERING UNCOVERED
Largest diesel engine
Wkh#uvw#wzr0vwurnh#hqjlqh#
zdv#sdwhqwhg#lq#4;;4
DIESEL ENGINE
BEHEMOTH
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FUEL INJECTION
Fuel is squirted into the engines 14
cylinders at high pressure, using
common rail-direct fuel-injector
technology. It is operated
electronically, rather than mechnically,
offering greater precision.
he Wartsila-Sulzer RTA96-C
14-cylinder, turbo-charged
two-stroke diesel engine
has all the same parts as, and operates
in a very similar fashion to, a
conventional two-stroke diesel engine
from an old lawnmower. But put them
FUELLING POWER
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squirted in, mixed with air and
directed into an enclosed cylinder
where its electronically ignited. Hot
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expands, pushing the piston up the
cylinder; the pistons linear motion is
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circular motion.
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exhaust the burned gas produced
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stroke. Further cylinders are
positioned in line so that one cylinder
is always exploding as the others are
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Diesel is distilled
iurp#fuxgh#rlo
PRIMED CYLINDERS
As the air-fuel mix explodes on one side of
the piston, pushing it up the cylinder, the
air on the other side is compressed and
used to prime adjacent cylinders for firing.
Other products
include kerosene,
petroleum and naptha
ENGINEERING UNCOVERED
Largest diesel engine
SEVMORPUT
+ The Russian Sevmorput is the only
nuclear-powered container ship in
operation today. Its KLT-40 nuclear ssion
reactor produces a thermal output of 135
megawatts used to generate 215
tonnes of steam per hour, at high
pressure, to power its turbines.
REDUCED FORCES
IMAGE WIKI COMMONS
E-SHIP 1
All 14 connecting rods attach to a
single 272-tonne crankshaft.
Theres no gearbox just a direct
coupling to the propeller shaft.
What the captain may lack in
refined speed control, they make up
for in engine efficiency on long runs.
CONNECTING CRANK
AURIGA LEADER
PROTECTIVE COATING
Cylinders are lubricated by regular
injections of special oil, which protects
the cylinders from wear and neutralises
the acids formed during combustion of
sulphurous fuel.
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ENGINEERING UNCOVERED
WORDS BY Ian
Evenden
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A 2,000-year-old seed
still germinated
ENGINEERING UNCOVERED
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
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Harvester ants
love seeds
ENGINEERING UNCOVERED
SEEDS IN SVALBARD
BARLEY
BEANS
POTATOES
KEEPING IT LOCAL
Construction of the vault was
handled by a building contractor
local to the island, meaning
machinery didnt have to be shipped
over. Plus, expertise in working
in the extreme environment was
readily at hand. We were really
happy they won the contract, says
Evjen. The project was really small
to them. They actually asked us if we
could increase the size of the vault,
as it was easier to build three rooms
than two, to better regulate the
amount of mass in each chamber.
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A billion of them
would only weigh
one gram
ENGINEERING UNCOVERED
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
UNDERGROUND VAULTS
More buildings safeguarding our future from below
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Science writer
METRO 2
+ Under Moscow, there may be a whole secret rail system.
Rumoured to have been built during the reign of Stalin,
Metro 2s four lines connect government buildings, airports
and a whole underground town. That is, if it even exists.
SENTRALANLEGGET
+ The Svalbard vault isnt Norways only foray into massive
earth-moving. This complex, with a name that translates
as The Central Facility, is the war HQ of the countrys
government and royal family, and takes advantage of being
underneath a mountain, protecting it from nuclear attack.
CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN
+ The Americans started
drilling this complex into the
Rocky Mountains in 1961. The
1.8-hectare grid of tunnels is
accessed through a 1,400m
entrance passage and serves as
an alternative command centre
in the event of a nuclear war.
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NATURE UNCOVERED
The origins of life
The
origins
of life
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#01
The advent of plants transformed the Earth from its primordial state, meaning that early life thrived in
a completely different atmosphere from todays. As plants photosynthesised using the Suns energy,
they pumped out the oxygen that now fills the air and sea.
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NATURE UNCOVERED
The origins of life
It is located in
northern Quebec
province, in Canada
ROCK FORMATIONS
Hydrothermal vents on
the seafloor create some
very unusual conditions
+ Not all the rocks on Earth are the same age some
are young at just a few million years old. By contrast,
the oldest rocks on the planet, discovered in 1999 in
Canada, are over four billion years old, giving us our best
estimate of the Earths age. But it could be even older.
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The origins of life
Q&A DINA
PASINI
Tests on the panspermia idea that life came from another planet
show that interplanetary transport is possible
Where does panspermia
assume life came from?
There are several candidates in the
Solar System. In early Mars history
the conditions were ripe for life to
develop, so its completely feasible that
life could have developed there and
then come to Earth. Or it could have
originated from outside of the Solar
System entirely.
How would life get from one planet
to another?
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an impact into the ocean and then lots
of water with organisms in it was shot
into space a sort of ice asteroid.
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Its a mystery how the very earliest life passed on its information from one generation to another. DNA is too
complex and needs to partner with equally complex proteins to copy itself, so the first genetic molecules
must have been simpler and self-replicating. But how do you make a self-replicating molecule?
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Could life be
transported through
space? Theres new
evidence it could
Dina Pasini
University of Kent
+ Based at the Centre for Astrophysics and
Planetary Science, Dinas PhD research is focused
on whether life could have originated elsewhere and
been brought to Earth.
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MANUFACTURING PROTEINS
Scientists have been reverse engineering proteins
to see what their antecedents would have looked like
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#04
The chemist Stanley Miller was a hoarder. After his death in 2007, colleagues found boxes in his lab
containing vials of samples from almost every experiment he ever did, including his famous
primordial soup experiments on the origins of life.
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#05
One of the most Earth-like planets yet discovered is called Kepler-69c. The planet circles a Sun-like
star, around 2,700 light years away. It was spotted by NASAs Kepler space telescope and is
considered a good candidate for life elsewhere in the Universe.
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NATURE UNCOVERED
Incredible defences
This is because of
its squat body and
rounded nose
INCREDIBLE DEFENCES
FOUND IN NATURE
The natural world is cruel and full of terrors. But around the planet,
species are devising creative defences against the predators that
want to turn them into a tasty snack
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Incredible defences
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experiment proved not only that plants
can tell when theyre being eaten by
monitoring vibration levels of their
leaves, but also that they were able
to distinguish these types of hostile
vibrations from other common sources
of movement, such as the wind or
non-threatening insects. Since there
is considerable overlap between these
various noise frequencies, it seems the
plants method of acoustic recognition is
more sophisticated than simply listening
out for a particular pitch. Uncovering
how these little plants detect and read
the various vibrations is the teams
next task. Were trying to think about
the plants acoustical environment and
what it might be listening for, then use
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NATURE UNCOVERED
Fake fossils
Bolton
FALSE FOOTPRINTS
SUSPECT SKULL
2. CALAVERAS SKULL
In 1866, a human skull was found
deep in a mineshaft in Calaveras
County, California. The gravels in which it
was found had been buried by lava over a
million years earlier, making it the oldest
human skull ever found. It was sent to
Harvard professor Josiah Whitney, who
declared that it proved man lived in the
Pliocene epoch, alongside mastodons.
Suspiciously, though, this ancient
skull looked uncannily like one belonging
to a Native American. The circumstances
around its discovery were investigated,
as was the skull itself. It turned out
that several people admitted to having
obtained the skull from a nearby burial
site and planted it in the mine as a
practical joke. In 1992 carbon dating was
carried out on the skull, demonstrating
conclusively at last that it was, in fact,
only around 1,000 years old.
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3. BERINGERS
LYING STONES
Professor Johann Beringer was a
physician who studied fossils, and
on one of his searches in 1725, he found
some truly remarkable ones. The fossils
were of insects, small birds, reptiles and
amphibians, with inscriptions in Hebrew
and Babylonian, among other languages.
Fossils were barely understood at the
time, and Beringer believed the fossils to
be of divine provenance. He wrote a book
to publish his findings, at which point
two of his colleagues came forward and
admitted to having carved and planted
the fossils hed found, to punish him
for being arrogant and hostile towards
them. Beringer, however, suspected they
were simply jealous of his discovery, and
wanted to block his books publication
and his success.
Inevitably the hoax became known
after Beringer published his work, leaving
him crushed. He ultimately took his
scheming colleagues to court, and all
three ended their careers in disgrace.
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FAKE HUMAN
The Piltdown Man consisted of
fragments of skull found in a
Surrey gravel bed in 1912. The shape of
the skull was human-like, and evidence
such as tools and animal fossils nearby
suggested the existence of early humans.
The skulls discoverer, Charles Dawson,
and the then keeper of geology at the
Natural History Museum, Arthur Smith
Woodward, declared it to be a
500,000-year-old human ancestor.
But as more early human fossils
were found, it became clear that the
Piltdown find didnt fit in with any of
them its features were wrong. New
fluorine tests meant the remains could
be analysed: they turned out to be under
50,000 years old and a combination of
human and ape remains the lower jaw
of an orangutan, to be exact. It was a
rigorous hoax that had been carried out
with great care. We still dont know for
sure who was behind it, and 100 years on,
we probably never will.
Piltdown Mans skull is the cranium of a human and
the lower jawbone of an orangutan
COMPOSITE CREATURE
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INSCRIBED FINDS
5. ARCHAEORAPTOR
Like many successful hoaxes,
Archaeoraptor worked because it
made sense even if it was ultimately too
good to be true. This fossil was
supposedly unearthed in China in 1997
and illegally smuggled into the US, where
it was thought to represent a missing
link between dinosaurs and birds a
feathered dinosaur that would have been
capable of flying. The problem was that
the remains had been pieced together by
a Chinese farmer whod assembled it
from various fragments because
complete fossils were worth more.
That it wasnt a single real fossil was
ascertained fairly quickly. It transpired
that the fossil was built from the front
part of the skeleton of an ancient bird.
and the tail of a bird-like feathered
dinosaur, Microraptor. Archaeoraptor may
not have been a malicious hoax, but it
caused plenty of embarrassment.
Matthew Bolton
Science journalist
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becoming a reality.
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10 home innovations
10
INNOVATIONS
THAT WILL
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Microgeneration
and smart grids
Powering Britain from a few centralised
nuclear and coal plants dotted around the
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power lines and transformers shed up to
15% of the energy that passes through them. But what
if we could put a miniature power plant in every home?
Homes that record usage in real time, letting you see
how much youre using, and enabling power companies
to distribute electricity to where its needed. In Britain,
the government has pledged to install smart meters in
all homes by 2020, saving 6.2 billion a decade.
Thats the basic concept behind microgeneration
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become commonplace, more and more people can
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on some days completely replacing, the amount of
power they pull from the national grid. The power is
generated much closer to where its being used,
minimising losses in transmission.
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Biorhythmic beds
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The bed is where
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time, but modern beds arent
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pollution and increased screen
use, many of us are getting far
less sleep than we need with
consequences for our health.
But we now know more
than ever about the science of
sleep. The cyclical nature of
sleep is better understood, and
there are already apps that can
monitor your sleep and wake
Electric cars
Electric cars are not a
new technology.
They were in
widespread use in
the late 1800s, but advances in
internal combustion engines and
mass production of petrol almost
wiped them out in the early 20th
Century. Since 2008, however,
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battery and power management
technology combined have made
them viable once more.
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manufacturer now has an
electric model, and Elon Musks
Tesla Motors has built a name for
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sports cars. But most electric
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towards small city cars.
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10 home innovations
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The meat industry
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times more carbon emissions
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Luckily, more than 30
laboratories around the world are
working on in vitro meat. Stem
cells taken from animals can be
grown in a petri dish into strips
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While the process still
requires an input of living stem
cells, under ideal conditions
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intelligence was
coined in 1955, but
its fascinated
humanity for far longer. Now,
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Companies have been using
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logistics and other areas for
decades, and this is slowly
appearing in our homes. The
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required is the
Internet of Things
connectivity that enables your
devices to communicate with
each other and the wider web.
Once your toaster, lights and TV
come with internet connectivity,
a Siri for your home is no more
complex than that on your phone.
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Digital art
In the home of the
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display it may well be
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map the surface of walls,
allowing animations to take
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surface that theyre displayed
across and creating wallpaper
that moves. This wallpaper
can actually respond to
whats taking place in the
Virtual and
augmented reality
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Self-balancing bicycle
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