How It Works 2013 №48

Imagine Publishing Ltd., 2013. — 100 p. — ASIN: B00AVCRAB4A worldwide phenomenon, How it Works’ expert explanations, dynamic cutaways and breathtaking images provide fuel for imaginations across all ages, helping its eager audience to understand and explore the wonders of the modern world, and making complex topics into accessible entertainment. How it Works stands for clarity, authority, intelligence and knowledge, which is why the brand is successful worldwide in all its forms – print, digital and online.Incredible story of EarthSpace planes
- Discover the next-gen space vehicles set to take paying passengers into space.Deadliest animals
- Some use brute strength, others a lethal cocktail of venom and others still deploy clever traps. But which are the deadliest?Diamond Synchrotron
- We visit the Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire to find out what goes on behind the scenes at the UK’s largest particle accelerator.Neutrinos
- These tiny subatomic particles can pass straight through the Earth with hitting a single other atom, so how can scientists detect neutrinos?Also inside.
Space planes
Geosynchronous satellites
Trojan asteroids
Solar-powered spacecraft
Observing deep space
Eagle Nebula
Binary stars
Deadliest animals
Amber
Plankton
Heroes of… Charles Darwin
Bombardier beetles
White-water rapids
Spiderweb tree
Subterranean rivers
Diamond Synchrotron
Icemakers
Eco motion sensors
Facial-recognition tech
Telephone bugs
Bomb-disposal suits
Laser printers
Neutrinos
Colour blindness
Self-healing plastic
Anaesthesia
Bulletproof ice
Stomach ulcers
Acquired immunity
Monster trucks
Monorails
Engine mufflers
Woodchippers
Ride-on lawnmowers
Quad bikes
Brachiosaurus
Water mills
Ancient Greek warriors
Whaling ships