Really Really Big Questions About Science

Prepare to exercise your mind as you investigate big ideas in this philosophical question and answer series. Cool illustrations, brainteasers, and quirky quotations add to the simple and fun question-and-answer format, introducing readers to life's important questions.

What's in empty space if it's not empty? What makes something funny? Can elephants cry? and what came first: the chicken or the egg? Get the answers to these questions and more in the fifth installment of the Really, Really, Big Questions series. The most common questions about living things, the weird world around us, inventions, and Earth are asked and answered through humorous writing, funky art, and fun features like opitcal illusioins, quotes and mind-teasers.

Holly Cave has a BSc in Biology and a MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College, London. She spent four years at the Science Museum, researching, writing, and managing exhibitions and events for children, families and adult audiences on a wide range of contemporary science topics. Holly is now a freelance writer, editor and consultant. Marc Aspinall is an exciting illustrator who has created artworks for Orange, Time Out, Waitrose Kitchen, Easy Jet Traveller, Conde Nast Traveller and Wired Magazine. For Kingfisher, he has illustrated Really Really Big Questions about Me and Wow! Surprising Facts about Animals.