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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Scientists are bringing back extinct Tasmanian tigers • Showcasing the incredible world we live in

WEALTHY GERMAN STONE AGE AND EARLY MEDIEVAL GRAVES DISCOVERED

Europa’s icy shell may be pure underwater snow

Extreme physics of ‘supercritical’ matter may be simple

RIPPLES AROUND A DISTANT STAR PUZZLE ASTRONOMERS

‘Forever chemicals’ can be destroyed by beheading

Chinese dugongs now declared extinct

‘Merciless’ sea monster prowled the sea 66 million years ago

Your doppelgänger behaves like you, too

New mini ‘moon’ found lurking in the outer Solar System

SCYTHIAN ARROWHEADS AND BRONZE AGE DWELLING UNCOVERED

WISH LIST • The latest GAMES

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DINOSAUR PREDATORS VS PREY • Meet the most fearsome prehistoric creatures to roam the Earth and discover the food chains they depended on

MEET ANOMALOCARIS • One of the first apex predators to swim in the oceans

INSIDE THE MOUTH OF A PREHISTORIC PREDATOR • The Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the most ferocious creatures on Earth, with a powerful bite

JURASSIC FOOD CHAIN • Predator-prey relationships in the age of the dinosaurs

DINOSAURS BY NUMBERS

THE LOST CITY OF BENIN • The capital of Africa’s Benin Empire astonished Europeans with its beauty, so why is there nothing left?

THE ALMIGHTY OBA • Benin’s political, military and religious leader was an autocratic king

WISH YOU WERE HERE • European travellers often wrote home about the wonders they’d seen in the medieval metropolis

EXPLORE A SALT MINE • Across history, people have gone to great lengths to obtain what is a common commodity today

5 LARGEST MINES

INSIDE WIELICZKA SALT MINE • Explore one of the world’s oldest accessible salt mines, visited by around 1.5 million people each year

HOW ROCK SALT IS MINED • A step-by-step guide to taking salt from rock to surface

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR PET • Explore the brains and behaviours of different animals for better pet-human communication

The steps of animal training

BREED COMPARISON • Which dog breeds are typically the easiest or hardest to train?

5 PET RECORD BREAKERS

HAMSTER HANDLING • These top tips will help you learn the best ways to tame your hamster

Syrian hamster: five training traits • What makes this type of hamster the most tame?

FISH TRICKS • Learn how to perform these impressive tank aquabatics with your fish

WHAT IS PLUTONIUM? • The 94th element in the periodic table is one of the most dangerous on the planet

VOCAL CORDS EXPLAINED • How the folds within your voice box give you the ability to shout, talk and sing

EXTREME STARS • From the biggest and brightest to the smallest and dimmest, we take a look at some stellar extremes

ALL ABOARD SPACESHIP NEPTUNE • In this latest space tourism venture, a company is planning balloon flights to the edge of space

Animal DOMESTICATION • How humans created modern-day farm animals

Domestication AROUND THE WORLD • Where did our farm animals come from?

EMPEROR PENGUINS: SURVIVAL SPECIALISTS • How the world’s largest penguins live in the harshest continent on the planet

ADAPTED FOR ANTARCTICA • These giant...