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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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...