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Featured in how it works 2011

By Apr 15, 2011
Technology

Archive Gallery: PopSci’s Most Lovingly Illustrated Cutaways

PopSci slices away at concept cars, warplanes, Xerox machines, backyard observatories and more
By Apr 4, 2011
Cars

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
By Apr 1, 2011
Technology

Classic How It Works Video: A Differential Gear

Enjoy a vintage gem of the How It Works genre
By Apr 1, 2011
Gadgets

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
By Mar 31, 2011
Technology

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...
By Mar 29, 2011
DIY

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...
By Mar 28, 2011
Technology

How It Works: The Make-All 3-D Printer

The Objet Connex churns out complex objects by spraying eight million plastic droplets a second
By Mar 24, 2011
Gadgets

How It Works: The Light-Driven Computer

New integrated circuits use photons to build fast and extremely power-efficient supercomputers
By Mar 24, 2011
Technology

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
By Mar 23, 2011
Technology

Vintage Cutaways Show the Nuclear Reactors of Our Past (and Present)

Wall-art-worthy cutaways of European, American, and Asian nuclear reactors