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How It Works

No. 159
Magazine

Welcome to How It Works, the magazine that explains everything you never knew you wanted to know about the world we live in. Loaded with fully illustrated guides and expert knowledge, and with sections dedicated to science, technology, transportation, space, history and the environment, no subject is too big or small for How It Works to explain.

WELCOME

MEET THIS ISSUE’S EXPERTS

AR ZONE • Bring the pages to life

Feathered caterpillar

Cat’s tongue

Shaping Mount Mayon

Carbon star

Ferris-wheel-sized chunk of the Moon is orbiting suspiciously close to Earth • Showcasing the incredible world we live in

EARTH’S LOWER ATMOSPHERE IS EXPANDING

Triassic skulls unearthed in Greenland reveal ‘cold bone’ dinosaur

‘Balding’ black holes prove Einstein right again on general relativity

PATIENT’S IMMUNE SYSTEM CURES HIV

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is 40 times deeper than the Mariana Trench

Diamond hauled from deep inside Earth holds never-before-seen mineral

DRUG TO TREAT GENETIC CAUSE OF DWARFISM APPROVED

Polar bear parts are being smuggled around the world

Astronomers discover a ‘barrier’ around the centre of the Milky Way

Earliest evidence of mercury poisoning in humans found in 5,000-year-old bones

FISH RUB UP AGAINST GREAT WHITE SHARKS

WISH LIST • The latest CHILDREN’S BINOCULARS

SUBSCRIBE TODAY AND GET THIS FUTURE GENIUS BUNDLE

THE WORLD’S BIGGEST LASER • Why America’s National Ignition Facility is recreating the conditions that exist inside stars

HOW THE GIANT LASER WORKS

USING A GIANT LASER

NIF SCIENCE

NIF AND SPACE RESEARCH

NIF IN SPACE EXPERIMENTS • We speak to Jena Meinecke, who used the laser to study cosmic magnetic fields

BIGGEST LASER BY NUMBERS

SEEING SOUNDS AND SMELLING COLOURS • How does synesthesia combine the senses?

GOLD: THE RICH ELEMENT • How this versatile, unique metal forms, and how it’s extracted and used today

WHAT IS CHEMOTHERAPY? • Discover how powerful drugs can be used to destroy cancer cells

EXTREME DESERT RACING • The vehicles and technology behind the Dakar Rally, the toughest cross-country race in the world

WHAT MAKES A WINNING RALLY CAR? • The Volkswagen Race Touareg achieved three consecutive wins at the Dakar Rally

COOLING WITH SPACE TECHNOLOGY

AUTONOMOUS FREIGHT • The world’s first all-electric crewless cargo ship

FREE 3 eBooks FOR EVERY READER! • Grab yourself three fascinating, fact-packed How It Works specials for your digital device. Simply use the link below or scan the QR code to download

DECIPHERED HOW ANCIENT LANGUAGES ARE • It took more than 20 years to translate the Rosetta Stone

WHAT WAS THE BATTLE OF THE ALAMO? • The outcome of this two-week battle between Mexican and Texian forces proved pivotal in the Texas Revolution

WHAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE? • This imaginary line separates time, running from the North Pole to the South Pole

BIGGEST NATURAL DISASTERS • Eight times that nature caused widespread chaos and destruction

HOW BRITAIN BECAME AN ISLAND • The real Brexit started more than 8,000 years ago

HOW CUCKOOS TRICK OTHER BIRDS • Discover the cunning parenting of the cuckoo

DISCOVER THE UNIVERSE

WHAT IS QUANTUM COMPUTING? • How the ability to be in two places at once is heralding a new era of ultra-powerful computers

DAWN OF A NEW ERA

USES FOR QUANTUM COMPUTING

A QUANTUM FUTURE • Mark Johnson, vice president of Quantum Technologies and Systems Products at D-Wave, tells us what makes the Advantage so groundbreaking and why we won’t be throwing away the...


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 100 Publisher: Future Publishing Ltd Edition: No. 159

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  • Release date: December 23, 2021

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Science

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English

Welcome to How It Works, the magazine that explains everything you never knew you wanted to know about the world we live in. Loaded with fully illustrated guides and expert knowledge, and with sections dedicated to science, technology, transportation, space, history and the environment, no subject is too big or small for How It Works to explain.

WELCOME

MEET THIS ISSUE’S EXPERTS

AR ZONE • Bring the pages to life

Feathered caterpillar

Cat’s tongue

Shaping Mount Mayon

Carbon star

Ferris-wheel-sized chunk of the Moon is orbiting suspiciously close to Earth • Showcasing the incredible world we live in

EARTH’S LOWER ATMOSPHERE IS EXPANDING

Triassic skulls unearthed in Greenland reveal ‘cold bone’ dinosaur

‘Balding’ black holes prove Einstein right again on general relativity

PATIENT’S IMMUNE SYSTEM CURES HIV

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is 40 times deeper than the Mariana Trench

Diamond hauled from deep inside Earth holds never-before-seen mineral

DRUG TO TREAT GENETIC CAUSE OF DWARFISM APPROVED

Polar bear parts are being smuggled around the world

Astronomers discover a ‘barrier’ around the centre of the Milky Way

Earliest evidence of mercury poisoning in humans found in 5,000-year-old bones

FISH RUB UP AGAINST GREAT WHITE SHARKS

WISH LIST • The latest CHILDREN’S BINOCULARS

SUBSCRIBE TODAY AND GET THIS FUTURE GENIUS BUNDLE

THE WORLD’S BIGGEST LASER • Why America’s National Ignition Facility is recreating the conditions that exist inside stars

HOW THE GIANT LASER WORKS

USING A GIANT LASER

NIF SCIENCE

NIF AND SPACE RESEARCH

NIF IN SPACE EXPERIMENTS • We speak to Jena Meinecke, who used the laser to study cosmic magnetic fields

BIGGEST LASER BY NUMBERS

SEEING SOUNDS AND SMELLING COLOURS • How does synesthesia combine the senses?

GOLD: THE RICH ELEMENT • How this versatile, unique metal forms, and how it’s extracted and used today

WHAT IS CHEMOTHERAPY? • Discover how powerful drugs can be used to destroy cancer cells

EXTREME DESERT RACING • The vehicles and technology behind the Dakar Rally, the toughest cross-country race in the world

WHAT MAKES A WINNING RALLY CAR? • The Volkswagen Race Touareg achieved three consecutive wins at the Dakar Rally

COOLING WITH SPACE TECHNOLOGY

AUTONOMOUS FREIGHT • The world’s first all-electric crewless cargo ship

FREE 3 eBooks FOR EVERY READER! • Grab yourself three fascinating, fact-packed How It Works specials for your digital device. Simply use the link below or scan the QR code to download

DECIPHERED HOW ANCIENT LANGUAGES ARE • It took more than 20 years to translate the Rosetta Stone

WHAT WAS THE BATTLE OF THE ALAMO? • The outcome of this two-week battle between Mexican and Texian forces proved pivotal in the Texas Revolution

WHAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE? • This imaginary line separates time, running from the North Pole to the South Pole

BIGGEST NATURAL DISASTERS • Eight times that nature caused widespread chaos and destruction

HOW BRITAIN BECAME AN ISLAND • The real Brexit started more than 8,000 years ago

HOW CUCKOOS TRICK OTHER BIRDS • Discover the cunning parenting of the cuckoo

DISCOVER THE UNIVERSE

WHAT IS QUANTUM COMPUTING? • How the ability to be in two places at once is heralding a new era of ultra-powerful computers

DAWN OF A NEW ERA

USES FOR QUANTUM COMPUTING

A QUANTUM FUTURE • Mark Johnson, vice president of Quantum Technologies and Systems Products at D-Wave, tells us what makes the Advantage so groundbreaking and why we won’t be throwing away the...


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