Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Children, Children 6-9 Years, Children's Non-Fiction, International Non-Fiction, Coming Soon!
ISBN: 9780241795842
Published: July 2026
Imprint: DK Children
Page Extent: 72
Format: Flexible plastic / vinyl cover
RRP 275.00

Nature’s Greatest Scientists

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Uncover nature's greatest scientists, engineers, and mathematicians in this fascinating look at animals and plants and their amazing scientific adaptations.
Join bestselling author Steve Mould to meet amazing engineers, such as the spiders who build immense webs from different kinds of silk; funky physicists, like the bats that can see with sound; and surprising chemists, such as the corpse flower that smells like smelly socks to attract insects to pollinate it! The science behind each genius adaptation is explained clearly in Steve Mould's trademark humorous style and you'll be amazed by nature's solutions to some of the world's trickiest problems. Additional biomimicry pages even show where we've copied nature to improve our own science and engineering, such as...

About the Author

Steve Mould

Steve Mould

Steve Mould is a science expert and comedian with a physics degree from the University of Oxford. He has a YouTube channel with more than 175,000 subscribers, and his videos regularly achieve hits in the hundreds of thousands. One of these videos (about “self-siphoning beads”) went viral worldwide, gaining nearly 2 million hits and being mentioned in The New York Timesand on the BBC. Scientists later discovered why the beads performed in the mysterious way they did and dubbed it “The Mould Effect.” Steve also hosts a radio show on BBC Radio 4 and is part of the live comedy/science trio Festival of the Spoken Nerd. His first book for kids, How to Be a Scientist, is a 2018 ILA-CBC Children’s Choices Reading List selection.

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