How It Works

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.

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Firework eruption

Stellar clusters

Plant feeding tubes

Olivar’s squat lobster

Hidden chamber discovered in the Great Pyramid

MOST INTACT TRICERATOPS FOSSIL GOES ON DISPLAY

Scientists discover a new rainbow-coloured fish

Planet Nine is still missing

ANTARCTIC SEA ICE IS AT A RECORD LOW

Sleeping with a light on may be bad for your heart

INTERGALACTIC SHOCK WAVE IS BIGGER THAN THE MILKY WAY

14th-century sarcophagus found at Notre-Dame

NASA caught a dead star spewing antimatter

Astronomers detect largest organic molecule ever

King cobra is actually four species

SKULL OF SEA SERPENTLIKE MAMMAL UNCOVERED

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UNRAVELLING THE NERVOUS SYSTEM • Explore the electrically charged network composed of billions of cells that coordinates your thoughts, feelings and actions from head to toe

DIVISIONS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM • Learn the hierarchies of nerve structures that keep our bodies running and safe from harm

RELAXING OR TAXING • How we feel can affect our body in many ways

DISEASES AND DAMAGE • As the connective network coordinating our body, damage to the nervous system can be debilitating

THE NERVOUS SYSTEM BY NUMBERS

COLD SCIENCE • How low temperatures can change the state of elements and both injure and heal living tissue

COLD AND THE HUMAN BODY • The cold can harm the human body, but can also be its saviour

CHILLY CHAMPS • Here are some of the coldest record holders in existence

BATTERY BASICS • How do these portable power sources store and release electricity?

MODERN BATTERIES

HOW BLEACH KILLS GERMS • This cleaning cupboard staple tears through proteins, destroying bacteria and viruses in minutes

THE GOLDILOCKS ZONE • Journey into a star’s habitable zone, where planetary temperatures allow liquid water to exist

PROFESSOR FEDOR ŠIMKOVIC • At the bleeding edge of physics research, studying some of the smallest particles in the universe, professor Šimkovic’s day-to-day work is stranger than you can imagine

INSIDE A CAR GEARBOX • Discover the secrets behind manual and automatic gears and their amazing history

HOW SAILS HARNESS THE WIND • Why some ships have differentshaped sails to others and how they’re used

CAR HEADLIGHTS ILLUMINATED • Vehicle headlamps have been around for over a hundred years. How do they work, and what will they look like in the future?

WHAT WAS THE V-2 ROCKET? • How this deadly weapon was repurposed as a vehicle for taking astronauts to space

HOW PET ID TAGS WORK • These smart devices reunite owners with their animal companions

INSIDE AN INFRARED CAMERA • These devices detect thermal energy and turn it into an image we can see

GAMING PC TEARDOWN • A closer look at what makes the most powerful gaming computers tick

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WHAT CAUSES WIND? • How the uneven heating of our planet produces everything from a light breeze to a full-force gale

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