How to Fossilize Your Hamster

Have you ever wondered how to:

• Weigh your own head?
• Tell if a martini has been shaken, not stirred?
• Extract the iron from breakfast cereal?
• Make eggs go green?
• Measure the speed of light with chocolate and a microwave?

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 will 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.