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DescriptionEinstein, Galileo, Newton ... and YOU! PARACHUTE an egg from an upstairs window! DISTILL DNA from a half-eaten banana! SPARK lightning in your mouth! Here are fifty awesome experiments that demonstrate the principles behind the greatest scientific breakthroughs in human history. Astound friends with an experiment that seems to defy the laws of gravity, launch a plastic bottle into the air, peer through a microscope made out of water, prove atomic theory with food colouring - and recreate the Large Hadron Collider using marshmallows! Using everyday stuff from around the house, the curious can now boldly go where the bravest scientists in history have gone before. AwardsWinner of AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books: Hands-On Science Book 2010. |