Why are Orangutans Orange?: Science puzzles in pictures - with fascinating answers (New Scientist) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1846685079 ISBN 13: 9781846685071

Publisher: Profile Books, 2011

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Illustrated for the first time, with eighty full-colour photographs showing the beauty, complexity and mystery of the world around us, here is the next eagerly awaited volume of science questions and answers from New Scientist magazine. From ripples in glass to 'holograms' in ice, the natural world's wonders are unravelled by the magazine's knowledgeable readers.

Six years on from Does Anything Eat Wasps? (2005), the New Scientist series still rides high in the bestseller lists, with well over two million copies sold. Popular science has never been more absorbing or more enjoyable. Like Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? (2006), Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? (2008) and Why Can't Elephants Jump? (2010), this latest collection of resourceful, wry and well-informed answers to a remarkable range of baffling science questions is guaranteed to impress and delight.

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Classic New Scientist Q&As - now fully illustrated

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More questions and answers from the popular 'Last Word' column - now illustrated in full colour! Why do boobies have blue feet?How do dolphins blow underwater air rings?What makes ice form in 'vines' on a window pane?Where did the mountain get its cloud hat?If your hair stands on end, are you in danger? New Scientist magazine's 'Last Word' column features tricky scientific questions posed by its readers and answered by others around the world. For the first time this new collection is illustrated throughout with full-colour photographs that will astonish, baffle and delight new and regular readers alike.

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