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In How It Works 175, discover how your immune system keeps deadly invaders at bay and what happens when it goes wrong, how spacesuit technology protects astronauts, see inside a bomb factory, why bees are vital to life as we know it, is your appendix really useless? How the Vikings rules the waves, and much more.

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