Einstein, Galileo, Newton ... and YOU! PARACHUTE an egg from an upstairs window! DISTILL DNA from a half-eaten banana! mouth! Here are fifty awesome experiments that demonstrate the principles behind the greatest scientific breakthroughs in human history. Astound friends with an experiment that seems to defy the laws of gravity, launch a plastic bottle into the air, peer through a microscope made out of water, prove atomic theory with food colouring - and recreate the Large Hadron Collider using marshmallows! Using everyday stuff from around the house, the curious can now boldly go where the bravest scientists in history have gone before.