“Go sheet lightning you’re burning up the quarter mile (sheet lightning, go sheet lightning)…”
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Why do we sometimes get a ‘lump in our throats’ when we are about to cry?
We fought the tears back to bring you the answer.
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Why does your voice sound different to yourself?
You say ‘potato’, we think you say ‘potaato’
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Video: Home Experiment – Liquid Layers
See the How It Works team in action as we perform the ‘Liquid Layers’ experiment from issue 24
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What is a shock wave?
The science behind breaking the sound barrier
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Teeth whitening
How does it work? Read on for a mouthful of tasty facts.
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Top Five Facts: Brain Surgery
Here’s some mind-bending facts about our natural thinking machines
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What’s the difference between DNA and RNA?
Science legend Chi Wing Man is on the case. Check out his awesome fact-filled answer after the jump.
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How do our bodies remember to breathe?
Click through for the breathtaking answer
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Video: Giant shock wave
Watch this awesome video of a giant shock wave caused by a massive explosion – and then find out how it all works in How It Works issue 23, on sale 14 July
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How long is a second?
It’s not as easy as ‘one mississippi, two mississippi, three mississippi…’
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Why do things smell?
More importantly, though, why does the How It Works team always smell so great? Must be all that knowledge we’ve got stored up
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Top Five Facts: Physics of time
Five interesting facts about the all-ticking ‘force’ of nature
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Does chewing gum stay in your stomach for years?
Short answer: No. Find out why right here
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How does the periodic table work?
Our ‘genius’ this month was Ben Gompertz, who kindly provided the answer for us
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What is the summer solstice?
Why is today the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere?
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Does cheese cause nightmares?
The answer might genuinely surprise you
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Top Five Facts: Uses Of Germs
How are we able to put the catalysts of disease to good use?
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Is fire a solid, liquid or a gas?
We turn up the heat to find out the answer
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Why do clothes sometimes shrink in the wash?
Here’s Mr Monteiro with the answer