What’s in a name?
The biology, psychology and sociology of your name may be influencing you more than you realise
How It Works Feed your mind with fascinating facts about the world around you
Food waste: how much perfectly good food never reaches your plate?
The biggest cause for concern when we’re thinking about food waste is what happens between the produce growing on the field and arriving at your kitchen
Turtles versus tortoises: They look alike, but how similar are these creatures?
While both turtles and tortoises are reptiles from the order of Testudines, they are in different classification families and therefore have differing features
Baking science: How to make the perfect cake
Want the secret to brilliant baking? It’s all in the chemistry of cake… Baking involves an abundance of chemical interactions. From air bubbles in the mix which expand and make the cake rise, to...
How does hair bleaching work?
Hydrogen peroxide, a type of bleach, has a variety of applications in industry – one of which is to remove colour from hair
Saharan dust and its journey around the world
Discover how weather conditions can whip up sand from the Sahara Desert and carry it around the world
Norman Borlaug: the man who saved a billion people from starvation
Pulling a cultivator across a barren field in the midday heat with a rope harness strapped across his chest, Dr Norman Borlaug was clearly not a conventional scientist
Extinct zebras and poisonous platypus: How it Works talks weird evolution with zoologist Jack Ashby
How It Works’ Charlie Evans speaks to the renowned zoologist Jack Ashby about his career
