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How It Works

No. 147
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 • The magazine that feeds minds!

Meet the team…

GROWING NERVE CELLS

EUROPA’S FROZEN SURFACE

GLOWING MUSHROOMS

Brain-eating amoebae on the move

Alien hunters detect mystery signal

New fungi turns flies into zombies before eating them from the inside

Air pressure makes Everest ‘shrink’

An angel, devil and a heart appear on Mars

Arctic methane could be unlocked by the Moon

Scientists spot the farthest galaxy in the universe

Tudor gold coin stash found in English garden

China gives global access to world’s largest radio telescope

WISH LIST • The latest smartphone gadgets

APPS & TOOLS

HOW TO BUILD A WARSHIP Words by Mike Jennings • The Royal Navy is updating its fleet: here’s how it builds its future-proofed, world-class combat vessels

DID YOU KNOW?

SHIP-BUILDING SITES

BUILDING A BATTLESHIP • Building a frigate like the HMS Glasgow is a complex process

THE TYPE 31’S INNOVATIVE MANUFACTURING

QUIET, FAST AND FUNCTIONAL

ROYAL NAVY SHIPS THROUGH THE AGES

DIRECTOR FOR TYPE-26 FRIGATES • Rear Admiral Paul Marshall CBE, the senior officer responsible for delivering these latest warships, explains their role in the Royal Navy

LANDING A PLANE • Find out how pilots get tonnes of metal down safely to the tarmac

Visual guide to a cockpit

Instrument landing system explained • An ILS is installed at most important airports, helping land planes accurately, safely and efficiently

Landing a plane in an emergency • Let’s hope you never have to use this…

Armour options

The Humvee • The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) roars off the production line ready for action

Packing a punch

Atomic icebreaker • Meet the latest nuclear-powered vessel to sail the frozen seas

The first icebreaker

BUSH MEDICINE • Aboriginal Australians are experts of the outback, utilising life-saving remedies found in nature

USEFUL EUCALYPTS • If we take apart the gum trees of the bush, what comforting components can we find?

DISCOVER DESERTS • What might at first glance appear to be a barren wasteland is actually teeming with life and unique terrain

ON THE MAP

Keeping an eye on ice

ANTARCTICA’S MELTDOWN • Why Earth’s frozen continent is shedding so much ice

Record-breaking temperatures

Deep-diving sperm whale • How does a mammal the size of a bus survive great depths?

Favourite dish

What about us?

HOW SPACE TECH BENEFITS EARTH • Discover some of the inventions made for space exploration that we now use every day

5 FACTS ABOUT • MEDICAL SPACE INNOVATIONS

Seeking the origins of life with Hayabusa2 • This probe has returned home with asteroid samples that could unlock the secrets of the universe

Down to Earth

Diamond in the sky

Secrets of the SYNCHROTRON • Find out how the UK’s largest laboratory can accelerate electrons to nearly the speed of light

IDs up close

How to stop a hurricane • Could this simple bubble technology reduce the destruction wreaked by these deadly natural disasters?

Oceantherm CEO

Inside a blast furnace • The steel that shapes our modern cities starts from glowing metal made in these massive...


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 100 Publisher: Future Publishing Ltd Edition: No. 147

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: January 21, 2021

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OverDrive Magazine

subjects

Science

Languages

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 • The magazine that feeds minds!

Meet the team…

GROWING NERVE CELLS

EUROPA’S FROZEN SURFACE

GLOWING MUSHROOMS

Brain-eating amoebae on the move

Alien hunters detect mystery signal

New fungi turns flies into zombies before eating them from the inside

Air pressure makes Everest ‘shrink’

An angel, devil and a heart appear on Mars

Arctic methane could be unlocked by the Moon

Scientists spot the farthest galaxy in the universe

Tudor gold coin stash found in English garden

China gives global access to world’s largest radio telescope

WISH LIST • The latest smartphone gadgets

APPS & TOOLS

HOW TO BUILD A WARSHIP Words by Mike Jennings • The Royal Navy is updating its fleet: here’s how it builds its future-proofed, world-class combat vessels

DID YOU KNOW?

SHIP-BUILDING SITES

BUILDING A BATTLESHIP • Building a frigate like the HMS Glasgow is a complex process

THE TYPE 31’S INNOVATIVE MANUFACTURING

QUIET, FAST AND FUNCTIONAL

ROYAL NAVY SHIPS THROUGH THE AGES

DIRECTOR FOR TYPE-26 FRIGATES • Rear Admiral Paul Marshall CBE, the senior officer responsible for delivering these latest warships, explains their role in the Royal Navy

LANDING A PLANE • Find out how pilots get tonnes of metal down safely to the tarmac

Visual guide to a cockpit

Instrument landing system explained • An ILS is installed at most important airports, helping land planes accurately, safely and efficiently

Landing a plane in an emergency • Let’s hope you never have to use this…

Armour options

The Humvee • The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) roars off the production line ready for action

Packing a punch

Atomic icebreaker • Meet the latest nuclear-powered vessel to sail the frozen seas

The first icebreaker

BUSH MEDICINE • Aboriginal Australians are experts of the outback, utilising life-saving remedies found in nature

USEFUL EUCALYPTS • If we take apart the gum trees of the bush, what comforting components can we find?

DISCOVER DESERTS • What might at first glance appear to be a barren wasteland is actually teeming with life and unique terrain

ON THE MAP

Keeping an eye on ice

ANTARCTICA’S MELTDOWN • Why Earth’s frozen continent is shedding so much ice

Record-breaking temperatures

Deep-diving sperm whale • How does a mammal the size of a bus survive great depths?

Favourite dish

What about us?

HOW SPACE TECH BENEFITS EARTH • Discover some of the inventions made for space exploration that we now use every day

5 FACTS ABOUT • MEDICAL SPACE INNOVATIONS

Seeking the origins of life with Hayabusa2 • This probe has returned home with asteroid samples that could unlock the secrets of the universe

Down to Earth

Diamond in the sky

Secrets of the SYNCHROTRON • Find out how the UK’s largest laboratory can accelerate electrons to nearly the speed of light

IDs up close

How to stop a hurricane • Could this simple bubble technology reduce the destruction wreaked by these deadly natural disasters?

Oceantherm CEO

Inside a blast furnace • The steel that shapes our modern cities starts from glowing metal made in these massive...


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