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.

WELCOME • Issue 164

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Inside the brain

Creating artificial stars

Salmon sucker

Inside the space bubble

Skin made 30 years younger with a new technique

SECRET SHARK SOCIAL CLUB DISCOVERED OFF MEXICAN COAST

Thousands of new viruses discovered in the ocean

Massive meteorite impact created the hottest mantle rock ever

MAN’S ‘ITCHY EYE’ CAUSED BY SQUIRMING FLY LARVAE

New body part found hidden in the lungs

DECLASSIFIED DATA REVEALS INTERSTELLAR OBJECT FLYING OVER EARTH

World’s oldest case of cannibalism revealed

Strange new solar wave defies physics

‘Magnetic anomalies’ may stop the Moon’s ice from melting

UFOs left ‘radiation burns’ and an ‘unaccounted for pregnancy’

SCIENTISTS CREATE A WEIRD NUCLEUS THAT VANISHES IN NANOSECONDS

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WHAT IS NANOTECH? • Enter the invisible world of tiny machines and materials, where everything measures 0.0001 millimetres or less

INTRODUCING NANOBOTS

NANOTECH BY NUMBERS

TOXIC MUSHROOMS • Why some fungi are so poisonous and how to spot them

STAYING SAFE AROUND MUSHROOMS • David Winnard is a foraging expert and founder of Discover the Wild, a UK-based natural history company that offers foraging and species identification services. Winnard is a renowned naturalist in the UK and has worked with many conservation organisations and local councils through his career

GROWING GLACIERS • How these vast ice flows form, grow and why they vanish

THE AMAZING ANGLERFISH’S WEIRD LIFE • Deep below the ocean’s surface are deadly predators that lure their prey with light

21 SIMPLE LIFE HACKS • From food tricks to technology tips, here’s how science can offer a helping hand

HOW DO ELECTRIC KETTLES WORK? • These are the components inside a kettle responsible for bringing it to a boil

SOLAR STORMS • Every now and then the Sun ejects material into space – and it can play havoc with technology

VOYAGER’S GOLDEN RECORD • What information did the Voyager spacecraft carry into space?

EJECTION SEATS EXPLAINED • Fighter pilots need life-saving technology if the worst happens, which is where ejection seats come in

LAST RESORT

CAR VENDING MACHINES • These giant dispensers make buying a car simple

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JOURNEY THROUGH YOUR BLOOD VESSELS • Dive under the surface and discover the expanse of arteries, veins and capillaries that keep our cells energised and healthy

COMMON DISEASES OF BLOOD VESSELS

WHY WE GET DRUNK • How does alcohol affect the body?

ANIMALS AND ALCOHOL

HOW SUNSCREEN PROTECTS SKIN • Blocking the Sun’s harmful rays is important. Here’s how sunscreen does the job

WHAT IS NATO? • Why the North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed and what it’s done since its conception in 1949 to the crisis in Ukraine

WHAT IS THE HELIOCENTRIC MODEL? • How we discovered the Sun’s place at the centre of the Solar System

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