How It Works - UK (2020-02)

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ISSUE 133

The magazine that feeds minds!

I

‘moldenoughtorememberthe

IBMpersonalcomputermydad

usedforhiswork,equipped

witha processorcapableofa

whopping4.77millioncalculations

persecond.Soundslikea lot,

doesn’tit?Today’spersonalcomputershavemulti-core

gigahertzprocessorsover1,000timesfasterthanthat

earlycomputersystem,andmodernsupercomputers

aremillionsoftimesfasterthan

today’sPCsagain.Tothinkthat

quantumcomputershavethe

potentialtosolvecurrently

impossibleproblemsin

medicine,AIandmore,and

outperformsupercomputers

byseveralordersof

magnitude,isincredible.Read

moreonpage22.

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Nikole

ProductionEditor

Explorethespace

odditiesofourSolar

System– methane

lakes,gushing

geysersandMartian

mountainscanbe

foundonpage70.

Scott

StaffWriter

Meettheanimals

dressedinarmour

tofightofffoes

and,insomecases,

turnpredatorsinto

pincushionson

page42.

Baljeet

ResearchEditor

Allaboardthe

floatinglabratory

thatis usingocean

sedimentstolook

backin timeand

unlockthehistoryof

Earthonpage52.

Quantum computers, page 22

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Ailsa

Staff Writer

From blood-sucking

leeches to

pain-killing cocaine,

check out the crazy

medicines used in

Victorian healthcare

on page 66.

Duncan

Senior Art Editor

What will the

weapons of the

future look like? Turn

to page 36 for a

glimpse into the next

developments in

human warfare.