Do Polar Bears Get Lonely?: And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions [Paperback]

'Sure to be another Christmas hit' Independent. 'A fascinating book' BBC Focus. 'It does have wonderful laughs' Sunday Tribune. 'It's interesting, it's accurate and it's science without the boring bits - If you're thinking of buying it as a present then it's something for the intelligent, thinking reader to keep' The Bookbag.

Do spiders get thirsty? How long would it take a cow to fill the Grand Canyon with milk? How do they get the stripes on toothpaste? Plus ninety-four other questions answered.

Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? is the third 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? (2005) and the even more spectacularly successful Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? (2006), this latest collection includes a bumper crop of wise and wonderful answers never before seen in book form. As usual, the simplest questions often have the most complex answers - while some that seem the knottiest have very simple explanations. New Scientist's 'Last Word' is regularly voted the magazine's most popular section as it celebrates all questions - the trivial, idiosyncratic, baffling and strange. This all-new and eagerly awaited selection of the best again presents popular science at its most entertaining and enlightening.

* Why does garlic make your breath smell? * How many germs are there on a coin? * What makes you left-handed or right-handed? * Do fish get thirsty? * Does it matter which lottery numbers you choose? New Scientist magazine's supremely popular 'Last Word' column offers an endless array of fascinating questions and answers from its readers. Here is a brand-new collection of the very best of them, in another dazzling mixture of serious enquiry, brilliant insight and the hilariously unexpected. Two previous 'Last Word' collections - Does Anything Eat Wasps? and Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze? - are No. 1 bestsellers, and both are firm favourites with a wide range of readers. This eagerly awaited third volume is as full of wit, wisdom and wackiness as ever - it will be irresistible for 'Last Word' fans and new readers alike.

Over fifty years old, New Scientist is the bestselling science magazine in the world, with over 400,000 readers a week in the UK alone. Do Polar Bears Get Lonely? is again compiled and edited by Mick O'Hare, production editor at New Scientist and widely interviewed author of How to Fossilise Your Hamster.