Mick O'Hare

EinleitungWir sind wieder da. Und noch besser als vorher. Diesmal erfahren Sie von uns, warum nasse Gegenstände stärker als trockene riechen, und wir beantworten die uralte Frage, die jedermann auf der Zunge liegt: Wie sinnvoll ist es, in der Nase zu bohren imd das zutage Geförderte zu...

How long can I live on beer alone? Why do people have eyebrows? Has nature invented any wheels? Plus 99 other questions answered. Every year, readers send in thousands of questions to »New Scientist«, the world's best-selling science weekly, in the hope that the answers to them will be given in...

Gerinc mellett a borítók néhol megnyomódtak. Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? is the latest compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly. Following the phenomenal success of Does Anything Eat Wasps? - the...

Introduction When, in 1994, New Scientist began publishing The Last Word, the magazine's weekly column of everyday science questions and answers provided by readers, one of the journal's editors asked how long we expected the column to rim. Estimates ranged from twelve months to five years....