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Archive Gallery: PopSci’s Most Lovingly Illustrated Cutaways
PopSci slices away at concept cars, warplanes, Xerox machines, backyard observatories and more
How It Works: A Smarter Crash-Test Dummy
How the next generation of sensor-packed devices gather 70,000 data points per second to make cars safer for flesh-and-blood humans
Classic How It Works Video: A Differential Gear
Enjoy a vintage gem of the How It Works genre
How It Works: 3-D TV Without Glasses
How a series of thin near-vertical lines placed in front of a display can create a stereoscopic image
How It Works: The World’s Fastest Rollercoaster
To fling passengers at up to 149 miles per hour, Formula Rossa uses a propulsion system inspired by aircraft-carrier jet launcher
The History of the Teardown: The Need to See Our Gear Undressed
The documented teardown has become a necessary part of any gadget's release. But why do we feel this need to take our gear apart?
How It Works: The Make-All 3-D Printer
The Objet Connex churns out complex objects by spraying eight million plastic droplets a second
How It Works: The Light-Driven Computer
New integrated circuits use photons to build fast and extremely power-efficient supercomputers
Letter From the Editor: Introducing How It Works
Editor Mark Jannot on the origin of our sixth-annual tear-things-apart-and-look-inside package
Vintage Cutaways Show the Nuclear Reactors of Our Past (and Present)
Wall-art-worthy cutaways of European, American, and Asian nuclear reactors
