Here it is, your complimentary teaser of the latest issue of How It Works magazine. Learn about the amazing journey your food makes through your body in our feature about human digestion. Take a trip around the world's largest cruise ship, the Oasis of the Seas. Journey to the centre of the Earth with us as we discover what's inside this planet of ours....

Venus flytraps, like the rat-eating carnivorous plant featured in issue two, tend to grow in boggy soil that’s low in nutrients, hence they need to find another source of food to sustain them, namely insects that happen to land on their leaves. These leaves are about eight to 15cm long and are ‘hinged’ along the midline with spiny teeth around the edges. The folding and trapping action is triggered by pressure on six sensitive hairs which, when stimulated will snap the leaf shut in about half a ...