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GER TANK
WHY DO BIRDS SING?
Discover what our feathered friends are talking about
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GET INSIDE A
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WHAT PRESERVED THIS
40,000-YEAR-OLD
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WHY YOUR FOOT IS
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ACCESS ALL AREAS: US
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
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HOW THE SAHARA
BECAME A DESERT
ISSUE
124
BENDING LIGHT
FEAST AT HENRY VIII'S BANQUET HALL
ALIEN ATMOSPHERES
WELCOME
The magazine that feeds minds!
ISSUE
124
“You can see the patient’s internal
structures mapped onto their body”
Robot surgeons, page 22
Meet the team…
Production Editor
Discover the
ingenious methods
astronomers use to
see into deep space
and spot objects
billions of light years
away, on page 36.
James
Staff Writer
Research Editor
Senior Art Editor
From frozen
Light doesn’t always The Tiger tank was a
wastelands to
travel in a straight
terrifying sight on
sun-drenched sands:
line, and when it
the battlefields of
discover more about bends it can create
WWII. Turn to page
Earth’s deserts and
amazing rainbows
80 to find out what
how they formed on
and mirages. Find
made this machine
page 50.
out how on page 32.
so fearsome.
Scott
Baljeet
Duncan
herever there’s a marriage of amazing
technologies, the result is often
greater than the sum of its parts. You
might only ever encounter virtual and
augmented reality features in your smartphone
or on a games console, but it’s set to be the
standard for surgeries of the future. Step into a surgeon’s shoes on
page 22 and find out how robots, VR and AR are revolutionising
hospitals. On page 70, we delve into a pet subject of my own: how
prehistoric animals, long-extinct, have been so immaculately
preserved in Siberian ice, peat bogs and sticky tar
pits around the world. Ever wondered what
NASA’s Mission Control does exactly? Turn
to page 40 to find out. This issue you can
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you enjoy the issue!
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Ben Biggs
Editor
How It Works magazine
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CONTENTS
SCIENCE
22
Robot surgeons
How the da Vinci robot and
virtual reality could soon be
standard in operating theatres
TRANSPORT
64
On board the Hawk
What makes this aircraft ideal for
the world-famous Red Arrows
display team?
30
Inside your foot
32
Refraction, rainbows
and mirages
68
See inside a
container ship
HISTORY
70
Frozen in time
How a perfect storm of
conditions have been able to
preserve the bodies of long-
extinct prehistoric beasts
SPACE
36
How we observe
deep space
The ingenious techniques used
to see incredible objects billions
of light years away
76
Henry VIII’s party palace
78
What is the Library of
Congress?
80
Tiger tank anatomy
22
40
NASA’s Mission Control
42
Atmospheres of the
eight planets
ENVIRONMENT
44
Why do birds sing?
What are our feathered friends
talking about?
30
78
What is the Library
of Congress?
Inside
your foot
50
How deserts form
TECHNOLOGY
54
Explore London’s
super-sewer
Discover the enormous new
tunnel system being dug deep
beneath the Thames
58
What’s inside
a waste
incinerator?
60
How the
Nintendo
Virtual Boy
worked
62
How batteries
are recycled
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How we observe
deep space
MEET THIS ISSUE’S EXPERTS…
Former
HIW
member James is a
biochemist and
biotechnologist. He
is currently doing a
PhD in machine
learning and
evolutionary theory.
James Horton
Jo Stass
Writer and editor
Jo is particularly
interested in the
natural world and
learning about the
latest in
technological
innovations.
Jodie Tyley
The former Editor of
HIW
and
All About
History
has tackled
many topics in her
career, from science
fiction to science
fact, and Henry VIII
to honey badgers.
Jonathan
O’Callaghan
With a background in
astrophysics and a
love of the mysteries
of the cosmos,
Jonathan enjoys
delving into the
wonders of space.
Laura Mears
Biomedical scientist
Laura escaped the
lab to write about
science and is now
working towards
her PhD in
computational
evolution.
Stephen
Ashby
Stephen is a writer
and editor with
video games and
computer tech
expertise. He is
endlessly intrigued
by Earth science.
Steve Wright
Steve has worked as
an editor on many
publications. He
enjoys looking to the
past, having also
written for
All
About History
and
History Of War.
History Of War
Editor-in-Chief Tim
has a passion for all
things military but
studies and writes
about a range of
historical eras.
Tim
Williamson
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