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How Amazon delivery works

Follow one box from the click to your front door in about a day.

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How hybrid cars work

Drive, brake and coast while power flows between engine and battery.

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How a heat pump works

Step through the loop that moves heat instead of making it.

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How solar panels work

Catch sunlight in a silicon sandwich and push electrons through a wire.

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How electricity works

Close the switch and follow the push that lights the bulb.

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How airplanes fly

Tilt the wing, speed up the air and feel the lift.

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How AI works

Train a tiny brain on cats and dogs and watch it learn from its mistakes.

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How the internet works

Chop a message into packets and race them across the world.

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How magnets work

Line up billions of tiny magnets and feel the invisible pull.

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How a microwave works

Wiggle the water in your soup billions of times a second.

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How roller coasters work

Haul the car up once, and let gravity pay for the whole ride.

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How wifi works

Turn your message into radio waves and bounce it across the room.

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How noise cancelling works

Fight a sound wave with its exact opposite and hear silence.

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How sound travels

Bang a drum and follow the squeeze of air all the way to your ear.

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How GPS works

Time signals from satellites and pin your spot on Earth.

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How batteries work

Send ions one way inside and electrons the other way round a wire.

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How a VPN works

Wrap your data in a locked tunnel and send it the long way round.

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How plastic is made

Turn oil and gas into pellets, then into almost anything.

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How computers work

Flip billions of tiny switches to turn on and off into games and videos.

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How 3D printers work

Build a toy boat one hair-thin layer at a time.

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How rockets work

Push gas down fast and watch the rocket go up.

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How a refrigerator works

Carry heat out of the box with a loop of cold, fizzy fluid.

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How soap works

Grab grease with one end and water with the other.

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How cameras work

Catch light through a lens and flip the world upside down.

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How nuclear energy works

Split an atom, boil water, spin a turbine.

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How Bluetooth works

Hop between 79 radio channels 1,600 times a second.

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How glass is made

Melt sand at 1,700 °C and freeze it before it can crystallise.

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How paper is made

Turn a tree into a soup of fibres and press it into sheets.

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How mirrors work

Bounce light off a layer of metal thinner than a hair.

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How hearing aids work

Catch sound, boost it and deliver it just right.

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How a compass works

Follow a tiny magnet that always points north.

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How popcorn pops

Heat a kernel until the water inside explodes it inside out.

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Why airplane windows are round

Find out why square windows caused trouble.

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How silk is made

Unwind a single cocoon into a thread a kilometre long.

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Where sugar comes from

Squeeze sweet crystals out of a giant grass and a root.

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How steel is made

Turn rusty rock into the metal holding up skyscrapers.

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Where rubber comes from

Tap a tree for sticky milk that becomes a bouncy ball.

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How an MRI works

Use giant magnets to take pictures inside your body.

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How the periodic table works

Line up the elements by protons and watch families appear.

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How lab-grown diamonds are made

Grow a real diamond in weeks instead of a billion years.