Eight Improbable PossibilitiesEchoing Sherlock Holmes' famous dictum, John Gribbin tells us: 'Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, is certainly possible, in the light of present scientific knowledge.' With that in mind, in his sequel to the hugely popular 'Six Impossible Things and Seven Pillars of Science', Gribbin turns his attention to some of the mind bendingly improbable truths of science.

they build the most accurate possible image of the world

and though Slanbeg is safe for now

You don't need to be an expert baker to make your own sourdough at home

into the depths of the dying city and a race with death

and boundless imaginations could help solve the mystery - and that if they don't attempt to find out what happened to Elizabeth Chester

Orso struggles to find a safe path through the maze of knives that is politics

caught between the seemingly unimaginable and the apparently unthinkable

But there's nothing dusty about this stonemason

After winning the Hunger Games

and because of our more extensive and deeper ties outside Europe

they have in a few months developed a huge system of agents

In this captivating adventure