A simple gyroscope demonstrates the incredible effects of angular momentum
This video illustrates how a simple child's toy can defy everything we think we know about gravity. Discover how spinning the wheel of the gyroscope enables it to stand up on its own, balance on a piece of string, and generally appear to levitate – all due to the ...
Playing with superconductors can be fun!
We all know that if we put two magnets next to each other with opposing north poles they repel each other. Indeed, this principle is in use today for commercial purposes, as can be seen in the high-speed floating maglev trains of China and Japan. However, when a magnet is put opposite a super-cooled superconductor then it levitates, as can be ...
Take a look at this documentary on Egypt's pyramids, for which Dassault Systèmes provided the superb animations. Nick Lerner spoke to How It Works about the project.
Nick Lerner: Nobody knows with any certainty how the Egyptians built the Great Pyramids. Many theories have been proposed, but none of them stood up to analysis. It was exactly this unresolved riddle that led several teams at Dassault Systèmes, ...
A shocking video demonstrating the devastating effects of earthquakes
The terrifying effects of the sudden, dramatic ground shaking that takes place during an earthquake is caught on film, revealing the massive strength and energy of one of the planet's most destructive phenomena. Earthquakes occur when stress builds up along the fault lines of the Earth’s tectonic plates, causing the ...
When Nikola Tesla created his famous coil I don't think he envisaged it being used like this!
The musical effect of this Tesla Coil is produced by moderating the rate and duration in which is it supplied with power via midi data and a control unit.
Nikola Tesla created the first Tesla Coil in 1891, demonstrating it in America to scientists and civilians alike, before filing numerous patents ...
This is just cool. Check out this Rubik's Cube solving Robot.
The Rubik's Cube was created in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and architect Ernő Rubik. The current world record for a human solving a 3x3x3 cube is an express 7.08 seconds.
The cube itself consists of 26 miniature cubelets which rotate around a central fixed axle, with the central cubelet on each face acting as a static facade ...
On 26 November 2003 Concorde officially retired. Watch as this distinguished aircraft came in to land for the final time. Ever.
The second issue of How It Works goes on sale today. Also on this day in history onlookers enjoyed the magnificent spectacle of Concorde flying into Filton airport in the Midlands for her final voyage in 2003. After ...
The latest and greatest issue of How It Works magazine is out tomorrow stuffed with a whole host of interesting articles to feed your mind. How It Works magazine is available from WHSmiths, supermarkets, Borders and Barnes and Noble.
In this issue:
Environment
* How lions survive - How a pride of lions live, hunt and survive
* The rat-eating carnivorous plant - it's an evolutionary freak
Technology
* How railguns work - electrically powered cannons
* Noise-canceling ...
More serene than many of our other video posts, this is a truly balletic display of avian flight
Winter evenings near this marshland in Oxford see mammoth flocks of starlings take to the sky in a nightly display of incredible aerobatic synchronicity. Watch as swarms of up to a thousand birds undulate like massive waves through the half-lit sky ...
