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Why Can't Elephants Jump?: and 101 other questions

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Well, why not? Is it because elephants are too large or heavy (after all, they say hippos and rhinos can play hopscotch)? Or is it because their knees face the wrong way? Or do they just wait until no one's...

How to Fossilise Your Hamster: And other amazing experiments for the armchair scientist

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How can you measure the speed of light with chocolate and a microwave? Why do yo-yos yo-yo? Why does urine smell so peculiar after eating asparagus (includes helpful recipe)? How long does it take to digest...

Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Questions

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How long can I live on beer alone? Why do people have eyebrows? Has nature invented any wheels? Plus 99 other questions answered. Every year, readers send in thousands of questions to New Scientist, the world's...

How to Make a Tornado: The strange and wonderful things that happen when scientists break free

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Science tells us grand things about the universe: how fast light travels, and why stones fall to earth. But scientific endeavour goes far beyond these obvious foundations. There are some fields we don't often...

Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?: And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions

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Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? is the third compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly. Following the phenomenal success...

Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions

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Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? is the latest compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of New Scientist , the world's best-selling science weekly. Following the phenomenal...

Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?

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Amazing and intriguing questions and answers from the team behind the international phenomenon Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze?

The popular-science magazine behind the runaway international bestsellers Why...

Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?

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• What time is it at the North Pole?

• What's the chemical formula for a human being?

• Why do boomerangs come back?

• Why do flying fish fly?

• Do the living really outnumber the dead?

• Why does...

Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask

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• How fat do you have to be to become bulletproof?

• Why do people have eyebrows?

• Why do pineapples have spines?

• How much does a head weigh?

• What affects the color of earwax?

• How quickly could I turn into a fossil?...