NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off at 11:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight.
If you want to see what's inside the launch issue of How It Works then take a look at these sample spreads. Click to enlarge.
Inside a medieval castle
The Eurofighter Typhoon
How vision and sight works
Beneath the surface of the sun...
How It Works has been enjoying some radio airplay!
Today was How It Works day on Wave FM –with a whole day of competitions tying in with the launch of the magazine along with website activity, emails and spot adverts. Click here to find out more http://www.wave105.com/Article.asp?id=1565754&spid=22878
As well as Wave we are also tying up with Heart FM ...
This is what happens when you make a tiger angry! Love how close the tiger gets without anyone seeing her...
A great video of a Eurofighter Typhoon with pilot's commentary. Love the way the pilot tells the on-board computer to shut up when he's landing. "Not now love!"
Boston Dynamics, creators of the amazing BigDog robot have topped that with the development of PETMAN (Protection Ensemble Test Mannequin), a biped robot that will aid in the testing of protective clothing for soldiers. We like the way it recovers when kicked, and how they've bought it trainers.
The T-Rex may have been one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs, but it might not have been a predator at all
Tyrannosaurus rex – from Greek and Latin words meaning ‘tyrant’, ‘lizard’ and ‘king’ – was one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs to walk the earth. It lived about 85 to 65 million years ago, in lightly forested North American river valleys and plains. The
T-Rex stood more than four metres tall ...
The guillotine was the official method of execution in France until 1981
During the French Revolution, anatomy professor Joseph-Ignace Guillotin proposed that capital punishment in France should be carried out by decapitation on people of all classes because it was the most humane method available. Dr Antoine Louis of the Academy of Surgery designed the machine that came to be known as the guillotine after pointing out that beheading by sword was highly impractical.
The guillotine consists of a wooden frame with ...
October 29 is already a day of some significance in history. Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded for treason, Muhammad Ali won his first fight, the Suez Crisis started all on this very day. Now the day can take on added significance as 29 October sees the launch of How It Works, the new magazine that feeds minds.
It’s a new, accessible, entertaining science and technology magazine that delivers absorbing articles packed ...
They may not be as interesting as the moons around Uranus but Saturn's rings do bear further investigation...
Saturn – The Roche lobe causes gravitational forces around Saturn to hold rocky particles
Inner rings – Inner rings are made up of rock particles that never formed into a moon
Outer rings – Outer rings are caused by geysers in the south pole of Saturn
Why does Saturn have rings but other planets ...
