The Gadget Show's Jason Bradbury has found a new way to enjoy How It Works – find out what he had to say about our new PixelMag…
Jason Bradbury: "The wait for the digital publishing revolution is finally over and the PixelMags version of How It Works is on the frontline. With my iPad and the How It Works magazine app, I have content-rich geek journalism at my fingertips."
If, ...
The Gadget Show presenter Jason Bradbury clearly had no fun at all – by which we mean 'he definitely had a lot of fun' – creating this hilarious mini movie featuring a CGI spiked robot called Punk from his Dot.Robot series.
Keep your eyes peeled because How It Works will be bringing you an exclusive interview with Jason in ...
Switching on a fan and feeling a nice breeze can feel very refreshing on a hot day, but what is going on? Is the fan taking some of the heat energy away? In a small, perfectly insulated room, switching on a fan can increase the temperature in the room as fans usually have a motor which gives out heat.
The reason why fans make you feel cool is due to something called the wind-chill effect. Blowing air ...
Just for our How It Works Daily users, here's another sneak preview from our interview with Professor Brian Cox. The issue it features in doesn't go on sale in the shops till Thursday so you'll see it here first. This time we asked PBC to tell us of his incredible vertical voyage to see the 100km-high Kármán Line used to define the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space. ...
The following short clip reveals how videogames for the exciting new Nintendo 3DS handheld might look
In under a year Nintendo will release a 3D version of the DS. The proposed handheld does not require gamers to wear special 3D eyewear – a problem with Nintendo's past foray into the 3D realm, the Virtual Boy. This video, however, gives ...
Witness the awesome power of the volcano whose resulting ash cloud is responsible for the widespread disruption of flights in and out of the UK
The Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland has been experiencing violent eruptions for over a month now with no signs of stopping – and in fact there's even the possibility that a bigger neighbouring volcano could ...
The lowering of temperature as you reach higher altitudes is due to the change in atmospheric pressure. You may be aware that the air around us is constantly exerting pressure on us due to there being lots of air above us weighing down on us. It sounds a bit strange to say that air weighs something but it does, we just don’t feel it because it is what we’re used to, just like gravity is constantly pulling us down. ...
So who's up for an early-bird preview of the latest issue of How It Works, which doesn't officially go on sale till 22 April? Issue 7 is crammed with more science-, technology-, history-, transport-, space- and environment-based wonder than ever before.
We thought we'd start off by taking a look at emergency service vehicles. In the event of a disaster, the emergency services are always on ...
Planes in the UK have been grounded due to a massive cloud of volcanic ash drifting across the North Atlantic – but why take such drastic measures?
The cloud currently drifting at altitudes of up to 11km over the UK consists of extremely fine rock, mineral and volcanic glass particles. The cloud formed because molten rock contains dissolved gases that expand and escape from the volcano in a violent explosion that shatters the solid rock into minuscule bits of dust. The ...
We can calculate how far something travelled if we know its
speed and the time it has been travelling using this equation:
Distance = Speed x Time. The speed of light is very fast, at roughly
300,000,000 metres per second, so we see lightning almost
instantaneously. In comparison, sound travels through air at
around 330–350 metres per second, depending on temperature
and humidity. You can work out how far away the lightning struck
by measuring ...
