Why Subscribe?

In each issue, readers are encouraged to discover the world around them and most importantly - what makes everything tick. From spacecraft to washing machines, time travel to Mentos and Diet Coke explosions, we'll explore almost any science and technology topic, explaining how it works.

Using specialist writers and with annotated imagery, we're able to take sophisticated and often difficult-to-digest subjects like Artificial Intelligence, solar fusion and the many functions of the human immune system, and turn them into fascinating and accessible articles.

If a reader desperately wants to know something, our expert Braindump panel is there, every issue, to answer questions you might never have thought of - such as, "Who owns space?" and "Why do songs get stuck in our heads?". And if a reader is looking to sink their teeth into a cool science experiment, they can turn to our How To section for a fun science project with really satisfying results, like building a lemon volcano.

Filled with cool facts on almost any topic you can think of, How It Works is great way to engage both school-age readers and their parents in the world of STEM.