How to Fossilise Your Hamster

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 different types of food? What is going on when you drop mentos in to cola? 100 wonderful, intriguing and entertaining scientific experiments which show scientific principles first hand - this is science at its most popular.

Review: I can't wait to create a six-metre fountain with a bottle of Coca-Cola and a packet of Mentos. * Bookseller *

It's very funny, very ingenious and not hard to foresee another Christmas bestseller. * Publishing News *

Full of really fun things you can inflict on your family. * BBC Radio 5 Live *

Discover the speed of light with a bar of chocolate ... reveals the amazing appliance of oddball science. * The Times *

You can unravel the secrets of life, the universe and everything in your own kitchen ... brilliant. * News of the World *