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This brilliantly wide-ranging collection of do-it-yourself experiments from Mick O'Hare and New Scientist magazine - designed to be done at home or nearby, using everyday household items - effortlessly displays scientific principles in action, and is guaranteed to amaze, inform and delight. The eagerly awaited companion to the bestselling Does Anything Eat Wasps? and Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? is a dazzling mix of wit, explanation and insight into the world around us. It will bring out the scientist in everyone. Established in 1956, New Scientist is the world's No. 1 science and technology magazine.