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Summary: The second compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly. This book includes answers to the most fascinating, trivial, idiosyncratic, baffling and strange questions in popular science. Ever wondered why we have fingerprints? Or whether bumblebees really defy the laws of physics when they fly? And why are eggs egg-shaped? And dogs' noses black? Why do our eyes water when we cut onions? Why doesn't superglue stick to the inside of its tube? This Q&A science book is popular science at its most entertaining and enlightening.